Ludwig Wittgenstein: Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half-Truths

by Jaakko Hintikka

Book Overview

IF WITI'GENSTEIN COULD TALK, COULD WE UNDERSTAND HIM? Perusing the secondary literature on Wittgenstein, I have frequently experienced a perfect Brechtean Entfremdungseffekt. This is interesting, I have felt like saying when reading books and papers on Wittgenstein, but who is the writer talking about? Certainly not Ludwig Wittgenstein the actual person who wrote his books and notebooks and whom I happened to meet. Why is there this strange gap between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792340914
• ISBN13: 9780792340911
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"