This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and
documents relating to Wittgenstein’s long association with
Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including
the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge
contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey (and previously
published as Cambridge Letters).
* Now expanded to include 200 previously unpublished letters and
documents, including correspondence between Wittgenstein and the
economist Piero Sraffa, and between Wittgenstein and his
pupils
* Includes extensive editorial annotations
* Provides a fascinating and intimate insight into Wittgenstein’s
life and thought
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
List of Letters and Documents 15
Letters 29
Bibliography 481
Index of Correspondents and Document Sources 490
Index 492
Circa l’autore
Brian Mc Guinness is now Professor of the History of Philosophy at Siena. Past publications include the translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (with David Pears) and A Life of Wittegenstein (Volume 1, Young Ludwig, 1988), the second volume of which is due to be published shortly.
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