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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1922)Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. C.K.
Ogden and F.P.
Ramsey, London: Routledge; trans. D.F.
Pears and B.F.
McGuinness, London: Routledge, 1961. (The major work of Wittgenstein’s early period and the only book published during his lifetime. The first English translation was revised and approved by Wittgenstein himself, though the later version is now standard. The German version was published in 1921 in Annalen der Naturphilosophie.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1953)Philosophical Investigations, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe and R.
Rhees, trans. G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (The most polished and worked over of all Wittgenstein’s later work; it contains the presentation of his ideas on meaning and philosophical psychology with which he was most nearly satisfied.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1956)Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, ed. G.H. von
Wright, R.
Rhees and G.E.M.
Anscombe, trans. G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell, 3rd edn, 1978. (Selections from Wittgenstein’s notebooks and manuscripts from 1937 to 1944. The third edition contains a larger selection of material than the first edition.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1958)The Blue and Brown Books, Oxford: Blackwell. (These were dictated to his pupils in 1933–5 and are among the few works composed by Wittgenstein in English. A good way of approaching his later thought.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1961)Notebooks 1914–16, ed. G.H. von
Wright and G.E.M.
Anscombe, trans. G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (Helpful for understanding the Tractatus, since it contains what is left of the preliminary writings of that period.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1967)Zettel, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe and G.H. von
Wright, trans. G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (A selection, made by Wittgenstein himself, of remarks that he wrote mainly between 1945 and 1948.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1969)On Certainty, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe and G.H. von
Wright, trans. D.
Paul and G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (A collection of all the material on knowledge and certainty from the last year and a half of Wittgenstein’s life, where he treated the topics at length at several points in his notebooks.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1974)Philosophical Grammar, ed. R.
Rhees, trans. A.
Kenny, Oxford: Blackwell. (Written in 1931–4, this deals extensively with logic and mathematics, as well as topics such as language and meaning.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1975)Philosophical Remarks, ed. R.
Rhees, trans. R.
Hargreaves and R.
White, Oxford: Blackwell. (Written in 1929–30 and interesting in that it shows the kinds of reflection on the Tractatus which drove Wittgenstein from his earlier to his later outlook.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1977a)Remarks on Colour, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe, trans. L.L.
McAlister and M.
Schättle, Oxford: Blackwell. (All the material on this topic from the writings of 1950–1, in which Wittgenstein worked on it extensively.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1977b)Vermischte Bemerkungen, Suhrkamp Verlag: Frankfurt am Main; trans. P.
Winch, ed. G.H. von
Wright and H.
Nyman, Culture and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. (Wittgenstein’s notebooks and typescripts often contain remarks on topics which are not directly philosophical. This collection assembles all of them from 1914 to 1951.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1980)Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, vols 1 and 2, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe and G.H. von
Wright, trans. G.E.M.
Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell. (Selections made by Wittgenstein in 1947 and 1948 from material written in 1946–8. Contains much of interest on the topics treated in Part II of the Philosophical Investigations.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1982; 1992)Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, ed. G.E.M.
Anscombe, G.H. von
Wright and H.
Nyman, trans. C.G.
Luckhardt and M.A.E.
Aue, Oxford: Blackwell, 2 vols. (Writings from 1948–9, from which selections were made by Wittgenstein for Part II of the Philosophical Investigations.) |
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Wittgenstein, L.J.J.(1993)Philosophical Occasions, ed. J.C.
Klagge and A.
Nordmann, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett. (Usefully anthologizes several short pieces, including the ‘Lecture on Ethics’ (1929) and ‘Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough’ (1931).) |