Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time the many varied aspects of Wittgenstein's life, philosophy, and aesthetic attitudes.
Biography
Brian McGuiness was previously a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and is currently Professor at the University of Siena in Ital;y. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Graz, Austria. He has translated (with Davd Pears) Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1961) and Prototractatus (1971), both published by Routledge. He is author of the acclaimed biography, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921.
'A valuable contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship. McGuiness displays throughout an immense knowledge of Wittgenstein's life and work, and admirably succeeds in putting it at the service of explaining the difficult ideas of this great philosopher.' Philosophical Quarterly