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1. Wittgenstein and Heidegger

   Pathways and Provocations

   Edited by Stephen Reynolds, David Egan, Aaron Wendland

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Their work not only reshaped the philosophical landscape, but also left its mark on other disciplines, including political science, theology, anthropology, ecology, mathematics,...

   To Be Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Prototractatus

   By Ludwig Wittgenstein

   Series: Routledge Library Editions

   Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1921, has had a profound influence on modern philosophic thought. Prototractatus is a facsimile reproduction of an early version of Tractatus, only discovered in 1965. The original text has a parallel English translation and the text...

   To Be Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations

   Edited by Nuno Venturinha

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy

   Sixty years after Wittgenstein's death, there is an increasing consensus among scholars that the work posthumously published as Philosophical Investigations represents something that is far from a complete picture of his second book project. G.H. von Wright’s seminal research on the Nachlass was an...

   To Be Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Wittgenstein-Arg Philosophers

   To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Wittgenstein's Novels

   By Martin Klebes

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Mystical in Wittgenstein's Early Writings

   By James Atkinson

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view. Atkinson intends to elucidate Wittgenstein’s thoughts on the mystical in his early writings as they pertain to a number of topics...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Politics of Logic

   Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism

   By Paul Livingston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell, Godel, Turing, and Cohen, even when they...

   Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
8. Beyond The Tractatus Wars

   The New Wittgenstein Debate

   Edited by Rupert Read, Matthew A. Lavery

   Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate...

   Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge
9. Wittgenstein

   By William Child

   Series: The Routledge Philosophers

   Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology...

   Published April 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

    By Pasquale Frascolla

    Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus provides an accessible and yet novel discussion of all the major themes of the Tractatus. The book starts by setting out the history and structure of the Tractatus. It then investigates the two main dimensions of the early Wittgenstein's thought,...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge