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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers98 reviews
David Edmonds, John Eidinow

Harper Perennial, 2002

Excellent piece of research
Having read some of the reviewers before me, I ought to warn the reader the book is more about a research of the surrounding facts of the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation than, as some of the naive reviewers seem to have expected, an in-depth account or opinion of the philosophy of both. The book is true to its nature and in that sense it is outstanding indeed. Seldom will anyone obtain, in ... 		  
  







  
  
Culture and Value13 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

University Of Chicago Press, 1984

Brilliant overview of the man's concerns...
This collection of Wittgenstein's "remarks" written over a time period of forty years was first published as "Vermischte Bemerkungen" in the original German in 1977. These remarks are taken from his private manuscripts and diaries, which were finally translated into English in 1980. As a vast majority of Wittgenstein's manuscripts or notebooks were written with no intent by the author for ... 		  
  







  
  
Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition)26 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Prentice Hall, 1973

Learn from it but there is no need to worship it
This is a book which at one time was worshipped. It was taken to be the holy text that gave the true answers to the philosophical puzzles that graduate students in philosophy were puzzling over. Wittgenstein was the hero and his manner of ' doing philosophy' of walking and holding his forehead, and waiting in silence and thinking for long stretches of time while puzzling it out was imitated by ... 		  
  







  
  
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius32 reviews
Ray Monk

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991

Excellent biography brings Wittgenstein to life
The positivist, analytical tradition in philosophy is what most people would associate Wittgenstein with in the first instance, provided they had heard of him in the first place. Because of his, and because of his philosophical attacks on the meaningfulness of the concepts of metaphysics, theology, spirituality and even most of logic, he is often depicted as some sort of cold, unfeeling Grand ... 		  
  







  
  
On Certainty14 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Harper Perennial, 1972

My favorite Wittgenstein
"On Certainty" represents a much more honed work than the more common "Philosophical Investigations," though the depth of its insights are no less than than that work. OC is, by far, my favorite Wittgenstein book because it focuses so much on epistemological issues. Some examples include showing the error realists _and_ idealists are making (showing the fly the way out of the bottle), why there ... 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)14 reviews
A. C. Grayling

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

A gem!
This book is astounding! I have never before encountered a short introduction that so clearly, concisely, accurately or effectively communicates a complex and largely obscure subject. As a result, this book is a remarkable achievement in its own right, not only illuminating the mysteries of Wittgenstein's very difficult work, but doing so in a way that will serve as a timeless model of ... 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein's Mistress24 reviews
David Markson

Dalkey Archive Press, 2006

The Way of All Meat (semi-spoilers included)
This is one of those stories that falls into the Big Two-Hearted River genre of stories, where what the characters are not thinking about is more important than the action on the page. For instance, the world has ended, and it is not directly stated how it has become devoid of people (but I think we all know). What does populate the narrator's thought are the biographies of the great artists of ... 		  
  







  
  
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (The Helen and Martin Schwartz ...2 reviews
Hilary Putnam

Indiana University Press, 2008

Religion and Experiential Philosophy
The American philosopher Hilary Putnam has had a long and varied philosophical career. Putnam began as an analytic philosopher steeped in mathematical logic. He subsequently became an adherent of a new form of American pragmatism. His debates with the late Richard Rorty over the content of this pragmatism became well-known. Putnam is famous for his receptivity to new ideas and for his ... 		  
  







  
  
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)39 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Routledge, 2001

'The world is all that is the case'
The Tractatus was Wittgenstein's attempt to solve all philosophical problems. Believing he was successful, he retired from Philosophy after publishing this text to become a schoolteacher for several years in Austria, before returning to philosophy. The Tractatus is one of the most important intellectual works of the 20th century, arguably as important as Bertrand Russell's and Whitehead's ... 		  
  







  
  
Philosophical Investigations: The German Text with a Revised English Translation 50th Anniversary ...12 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, ...

Wiley-Blackwell, 1991

A fine book
This is one of the greatest books I have ever read--and I've read quite a few books. 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief4 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

University of California Press, 2007

Wittgenstein on Aesthetics
This book contains lectures and discussions by Wittgenstein on topics that are not addressed in his major works: aesthetics and religious belief. The remarks were recorded by students and friends. In his early work, the Tractatus, Wittgenstein said: Ethics and aesthetics are one. Both are "beyond" capture in a "meaningful proposition". His later philosophy has a surprising turn away from the ... 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein's Vienna10 reviews
Allan Janik, Stephen Edelson Toulmin

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996

Kulturgeschichte of a remarkable cultural and intellectual watershed
This is a dazzlingly dense intellectual history of a time when there was an explosion of new ideas in both the arts and sciences. The place was Vienna, at the end of the Habsburg monarchy, where not only Sigmund Freud (psychlology) but also Loos (design), Schoenberg (music), Kochoscka (painting), and many others were establishing what we now call "modernism." It is also a philosophical tract of ... 		  
  







  
  
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy ...3 reviews
Marie McGinn

Routledge, 1997

An excellent primer on Wittgenstein
Having read numerous "begginer" introductions to Wittgenstein, the Routledge guidebook has definitely been the best! Its focus on the Philosophical Investigations, and it includes (along with others) sections on rule following, Wittgenstein's style, his critique of Saint Agustine's theory of naming, and the private language argument. Strongly recommend for those attempting to get a grasp of ... 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition4 reviews
Saul A. Kripke

Harvard University Press, 2007

An elegant and lucid look at Wittgenstein
Like all of Kripke's work, this book makes a wildly original contribution to the subject, and like all of his work, it is pure pleasure to read. Kripke's writing is the perfect mixture of lucidity and profundity. In the book, Kripke interprets the central theme of Wittgenstein's work as an examination of what it means to follow a rule, and Kripke explores this train of thought and examines ... 		  
  







  
  
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)2 reviews

Cambridge University Press, 1996

A Window on Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein is considered among the most important philosophers of the 20th century, he is certainly among the most difficult. But he is also among the most worthwhile. He was concerned, among other matter, with the relationship of language to the world, of the ontological status of mind and consciousness, and of showing how language itself helped create false philosophical problems. "When ... 		  
  







  
  
How to Read Wittgenstein7 reviews
Ray Monk

W. W. Norton, 2005

Great Guide to a Difficult Thinker
I am interested in philosophy but not a graduate student or academic, so my time and background are limited. This book was very useful in helping me understand a writer who is considered Important but who I have not been able to get any sort of handle on. I remember taking an undergraduate course and having the part on Wittgenstein go right over my head. This book allowed me to go back and ... 		  
  







  
  
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary6 reviews
Marjorie Perloff

University Of Chicago Press, 1999

Perloff captures Wittgenstein's poetic insights.
Anyone interested in either Wittgenstein or poetry should read this book. It does a remarkably good job of both philosophical and literary analysis, making the case that poetry, like philosophy as conceived by Wittgenstein, embodies the curious collision of the mystical with the mundane which best demonstrates the limits of language. Tightly reasoned and methodical, the book explains why ... 		  
  







  
  
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy7 reviews
Stanley Cavell

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Living our skepticism
The entirety of Cavell's work arranges itself around _The Claim of Reason_, a 564pp book that was extraordinarily long in its gestation (over two decades), as it grew out of his thesis on Wittgenstein into a much stranger shape. In Cavell's inimitable self-citing way, since its publication he's rarely written anything that doesn't refer back to _The Claim of Reason_. I'm not going to summarize it ... 		  
  







  
  
The Blue and Brown Books7 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Harper Perennial, 1942

Resplendent, explosive...
If you've never read Wittgenstein, bear down; and soon enough you'll cry, and shout, and praise God--blessed are the hours this man lived! Make room on your bedside table, tear out and fold the pages so you can carry them in your pocket; invest in your enlightenment. 		  
  







  
  
The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War
Alexander Waugh

Doubleday, 2009

The Wittgenstein family of Vienna was one of the most gifted yet star-crossed clans of the twentieth century. Heirs to a vast steel fortune, the children faced parental opposition to their musical and literary ambitions. Two brothers would commit suicide as a result; one, Ludwig, would abandon engineering to become the century's most famous and enigmatic philosopher; and the fourth, Paul, would surmount the loss of a hand in the Great War to ... 		  
  







  




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