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Wittgenstein’s Pre-Tractatus Writings

Interpretations and Reappraisals

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  • Jul 2024

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Editors:
  1. Jimmy Plourde

    1. Department of Philosophy and Arts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Canada

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  2. Mathieu Marion

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada

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  • Takes a systematic approach to Wittgenstein's early writings
  • Shows how the Tractatus can only be properly understood in light of Wittgenstein's early writings
  • Demonstrates that Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus work is important in its own right

Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)

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Keywords

  • Philosophy of Language
  • Metaphysics
  • Pre-Tractatus
  • Logic
  • Metaphilosophy
  • Wittgenstein
  • Ethics

About this book

This volume brings into focus the unique philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus writings. These contributed essays show that Wittgenstein’s earliest writings are worth studying for their own sake. They also reveal how much one can still learn about the Tractatus, if we are to study these early writings not as documenting one’s prior interpretation of the Tractatus, but as a series of steps in Wittgenstein’s thought, some down paths that are later abandoned, some leading towards it. The volume thus offers not only a fresh perspective on the pre-Tractatus writings, but also a comprehensive reading of a wide range of central topics from the very first letters, the “Notes on Logic”, the “Notes dictated to G.E. Moore” to the three surviving war-time notebooks

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and Arts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, Canada

    Jimmy Plourde

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Mathieu Marion

About the editors

Mathieu Marion, FRSC is full professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is the author of Wittgenstein, Finitism and the Foundations of Mathematics, and of numerous articles on the philosophy of Wittgenstein.

Jimmy Plourde is Assistant professor of Analytic philosophy at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. His research interests focus on Wittgenstein’s early philosophy and its context on which he has published several articles

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wittgenstein’s Pre-Tractatus Writings

  • Book Subtitle: Interpretations and Reappraisals

  • Editors: Jimmy Plourde, Mathieu Marion

  • Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48400-1Due: 19 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48403-2Due: 19 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48401-8Due: 19 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5994

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 296

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

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