Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Tractatus

<p>Written by a leading expert this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime the <em>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</em>. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein's brief but often cryptic text highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes: </p><ul> <li>Wittgenstein's life and the background to the <em>Tractatus</em> </li> <li>the ideas and text of the <em>Tractatus</em> </li> <li>the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today </li> </ul><p>Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics. </p>