Wittgenstein and Religious Belief (New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion series)

First edition, first impression.  x, 206pp.  Cloth covered boards. 8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Text block edges spotted.  Previous owner’s name inked on front paste down, a couple of small ticks against chapter titles on Contents page; a hint of page toning.  In its original, laminated dust jacket, rubbed and toned and edges, shelf worn.  The jacket has been glued to boards, with inner flaps taped to endpapers.  

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.