The Later Wittgenstein: The Emergence of a New Philosophical Method

First edition, first impression.  x, 340pp.  Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed at corners and spine ends.  Some spotting on text block edges.  Previous owner’s name neatly inked on front paste, ex libris bookplate on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original laminated dust wrapper, a little bumped at edges, heavily sunned over spine and upper portions slightly shelf worn.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an Austrian philosopher concerned mostly with logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.  Wittgenstein taught at Cambridge University for twenty years but published only one book during his lifetime.  His Philosophical Investigations, voted by American philosophy students as the most important book of 20th philosophy, was compiled from his notes and manuscripts after his death.