How to Read Wittgenstein
10 best books like How to Read Wittgenstein (Ray Monk): Discourse on Method, Philosophical Investigations, Thinking in Systems: A Primer, The Moon's a Balloon, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, The Blue and Brown Books, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir, The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry into the Concept of Number, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus, Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204227 |
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the...
Philosophical Investigations
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0631231277 |
If you read first Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and then follow it with his Philosophical Investigations, you will treat yourself to perhaps the most fascinating intellectual development in the history of philosophy. Wittgenstein has the distinct merit of producing, not one, but two enormously...
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
| Author | Donella H. Meadows |
| ISBN | 1603580557 |
Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations...
| Author | David Niven |
| ISBN | 0140239243 |
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.
Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0061312118 |
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the most important & influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34. The 'Brown Book' was a draft...
| Author | Norman Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0199247595 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein remains one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was an extremely private man. His friend Norman Malcolm (himself an eminent philosopher) wrote this remarkably vivid personal memoir of Wittgenstein--first published in...
| Author | Gottlob Frege |
| ISBN | 0810106051 |
The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors and contemporaries to devastating analysis. The book represents the first philosophically sound...
The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
| Author | Owen Gingerich |
| ISBN | 0143034766 |
After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of "De...
| Author | Roger Scruton |
| ISBN | 0192803166 |
Father of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a vision of man as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. Ostracized by the Jewish community...
| Author | A.C. Grayling |
| ISBN | 0192854119 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general reader by explaining the...
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0226904350 |
Peter Winch's translation of Wittgenstein's remarks on culture & value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English & a subject index for reference.
"It was Wittgenstein's habit to record his thoughts in sequences of more or less closely related...
| Author | Michael Simkins |
| ISBN | 0091901502 |
Consider the following questions:
1. In all the years since you first picked up a cricket bat, do you still remember with a thrill the occasion when you actually got to the pitch of a friendly half-volley, and just for once the ball didn't dribble a few humiliating yards toward mid-on or loop gently...
