The New Tractatus: Summing Up Everything

by Bruce E. Fleming

Book Overview

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was informed by the belief that it was possible to get clarity once and for all on fundamental philosophical issues, and so to think our way to a silence where philosophy was no longer necessary. This is The New Tractatus: it sympathizes with Wittgenstein's impatience with the endless cycle of argument, but reacts to this impatience and takes it in different directions than Wittgenstein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761837965
• ISBN13: 9780761837961
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"