Culture and Value (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Values, Philosophy or philosophers, Manners or customs, Social life, Ethics, Progress, Life, philosophy of
Form and Content
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the twentieth century’s most renowned as well as most difficult philosophers. His fame began with the publication of his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921; English translation, 1922), a work that sought to delimit and clarify the relationship between logic, language, and reality. In his posthumously published Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953; Philosophical Investigations, 1953), he shifted his focus from the influence of logic on language to the effects which various “forms of life” have on the...
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