Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Name: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The only work he published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragagraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced most of its readers and captured the imagination of all. > \nThe Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all.\nIts chief influence, at first, was on the Logical Positivists of the 1920s and 1930s, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of language, finding attractive, even if ultimately unsatisfactory, its view that propositions were pictures of reality. Perhaps most of all, its own author, after his return to philosophy in the late 1920s, was fascinated by its vision of an inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relat;