Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'. A Critical Exposition of Its Main Lines of Thought.

WITTGENSTEIN Ludwig.; STENIUS Erik (1960.)

£125.00  [First Edition]

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First edition. 8vo. xi, [1], 241, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (endpapers heavily foxed, neat ownership inscription and bookseller's stamp to front free endpaper, old tape stains to jacket turn-ins, else a good copy). Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 

A book-length study of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, with particular reference to its picture theory of language, by the Finnish philosopher Erik Stenius (1911-1990). One of the great philosophical masterpieces of the twentieth century, the Tractatus was originally published in German in 1921 and first translated into English in the following year.

Stock Code: 243079

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