Introducing Wittgenstein

This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.

A graphic guide to Wittgenstein, an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.

Autorentext

John Heaton is a psychotherapist and was a colleague of R.D. Laing. He studied natural and moral sciences at Trinity College Cambridge, attending lectures by Bertrand Russell.

Klappentext

Ludwig Wittgenstein has captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the fascinating master of enigmatic reasoning who, with his icy logic, convinced Bertrand Russell that there was a hippo in the room. In Introducing Wittenstein we meet a strange man, a rigorous logician who prized poetry above philosophy, who inherited a fortune and gave it away, who sought death in the trenches of the First World War, a great teacher who advised his students to give up philosophy, a solitary man who nonetheless inspired lifelong friendships.We are also given a clear and accessible guide to Wittgenstein's central work, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, a glacier of logic, and his later, friendlier Philosophical Investigations.

Zusammenfassung
A graphic guide to Wittgenstein, an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.