Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Published on 2 July 2013 by Taylor & Francis Ltd (Routledge) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Routledge Great Minds' series.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only book he published in his lifetime. He tackles nothing less than the question of whether there is such a thing as a logically perfect language and, armed with it, what we can say about the nature of the world itself. Pushing the limits of language, logic and philosophy, the Tractatus is a brilliant, cryptic and hypnotic tour de force, exerting a major impact on twentieth-century philosophy and stirring the imagination today.

With a new foreword by Ray Monk.