Notebooks 1914-1916.

WITTGENSTEIN'S EARLIEST SURVIVING WRITINGS

Edited By G. H. von Wright and G. E. M. Anscombe. With an English translation By G. E. M. Anscombe. First edition. 8vo. vi, 91 [+ 91e], [92]-131, [1] pp., with parallel text in English and German. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (internally clean and unmarked; price clipped, spine panel faintly toned with minor wear at head, notwithstanding an excellent example). Oxford, Basil Blackwell.

Wittgenstein's earliest surviving writings, his philosophical diary kept while he was writing the Tractatus, a testimony to the thought processes of the brilliant Austrian philosopher.

'Most of the notebooks containing [Wittgenstein's] preliminary work, belonging to all his periods of writing, were destroyed by his orders in 1950. These included a large number of notebooks from the time of germination of the Tractatus. Three of these last survived, however, by the accident of having been left in the house of his youngest sister, Mrs. Stonborough, at Gmunden, instead of in Vienna. They were written in the years 1914-16 when Wittgenstein was 25-7 years old. The first two are continuous. They form the main body of the present volume. The Appendices comprise two sets of notes, one composed in 1913 and given to Russell, and the other dictated to G. E. Moore in Norway in 1914; and, further, such passages from Wittgenstein's letters to Russell as bear on the Tractatus' (Editors' Preface).

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