Philosophical Investigations

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Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy
* The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe’s original translation
* Footnoted remarks in the earlier editions have now been relocated in the text
* What was previously referred to as ‚Part 2‘ is now republished as Philosophy of Psychology – A Fragment, and all the remarks in it are numbered for ease of reference
* New detailed editorial endnotes explain decisions of translators and identify references and allusions in Wittgenstein’s original text
* Now features new essays on the history of the Philosophical Investigations, and the problems of translating Wittgenstein’s text