Lecture on Ethics

By Ludwig Wittgenstein

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher's emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118842677
• ISBN13: 9781118842676
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"