Lecture on Ethics
, by Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Zamuner, Edoardo; Di Lascio, Ermelinda Valentina; Levy, D. K.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781118842676 | 1118842677
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 8/25/2014
The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre.
- The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics
- Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts
- Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture
- Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture
- Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance