Young Ludwig : Wittgenstein's life, 1889-1921

Author(s)

• McGuinness, Brian

Bibliographic Information

Young Ludwig : Wittgenstein's life, 1889-1921

Brian McGuinness

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, c2005

Note

"First published by Gerald Duckworth & co., 1988" --T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are both surrounded by controversy. In this welcome reissue of his classic biographical study, complete with a brand-new Preface, Brian McGuinness traces the early years of this fascinating figure and examines the formative influences which shaped his extraordinary life.

Table of Contents

• Preface (2005)
• Preface (1987)
• 1. Family Resemblances
• 2. Childhood and Schooldays
• 3. Engineering Studies
• 4. Cambridge 1911-12
• 5. Cambridge 1912-13
• 6. Norway 1913-14
• 7. The War 1914-18
• 8. Captivity and Return 1918-20
• 9. Tractatus 1921-22

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Details

• NCID: BA7798801X
• ISBN:
  • 0199279942
• LCCN: 2005275620
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford,New York
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 322 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B3376.W564
  • DC22 : 192
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • LCSH : Philosophers -- Austria -- Biography