Notebooks, 1914-1916

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1979. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x0. Second edition. Lacks jacket (though a portion is affixed to the rear endpaper with a note on it pointing to a particular page in the text), ink date stamp on front endpaper. Binding tight and square. 1979 Hard Cover. [230 pp.] Bilingual edition: German transcription opposite English translation, with this section paginated 2/2e-91/91e, following by appendices and index paginated 93-140. This considerably revised second edition of Wittgenstein's 1914-16 notebooks contains a new appendix with photographs of Wittgenstein's original work, a new preface by Elizabeth Anscombe, and a useful index by E.D. Klemke. Corrections have been made throughout the text, and notes have been added, making this the definitive edition of the notebooks. The writings intersperse Wittgenstein's technical logical notations with his thoughts on the meaning of life, happiness, and death. "When the first edition of this collection of remarks appeared in 1961 we were provided with a glimpse of the workings of Wittgenstein's mind during the period when the seminal ideas of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus were being worked out. This second edition provided the occasion to be struck anew by the breadth, rigor, and above all the restlessness of that mind." - T. Michael McNulty, S. J., The Modern Schoolman