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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (18 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415254086
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415254083
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.3 cm
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'Among the productions of the twentieth century the Tractatus continues to stand out for its beauty and its power.' - A.J. Ayer; 'Mr Pears and Mr McGuinness have not only achieved a clear and natural English but have been meticulous in their care for accuracy.' - The Times Literary Supplement; 'Pears and McGuinness can claim our gratitude not for doing merely this (a better translation) but for doing it with such a near approach to perfection.'- Mind

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Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Translation Around, 4 Nov 2008
This review is from: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) (Paperback)
Anyone who really wants to understand the Western tradition of philosophy, including where it goes wrong, should get to know the Tractatus, and this translation is by far my favourite.

It may take a little while to become familiar enough with Wittgenstein and his way of going about philosophy to appreciate the Tractatus for what it really is, but when you do you realise that it is a great book. Flawed, but great. In fact, Wittgenstein spent over twenty years working toward a book which would overcome the Tractatus's flaws while showing that the overall intelligence within the Tractatus was valid and important. This second book was published shortly after his death as Philosophical Investigations, and only by understanding the two books together can you, philosophically, begin to "see the world aright" [Tractatus, 6.54].
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4.0 out of 5 stars Worth a struggle!, 11 May 2001
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was meant to put an end to philosophy. As it turned out, it didn't, because he continued to write later on in life, although after reading it, most of his contemporaries had to keep silent for a bit. It undermines much thought of the early 20th Century. It's a hard one to read. You need to go over these short aphoristic mind explosions slowly. So it's a good thing that the whole text only amounts to about 70 pages. If you do get to the end, though, you can not read philosophy in the same way again. It is worth it for the final lines. The Tractatus is something you grow into. You love it or you hate it. If you get it, you can't ignore it. If you don't, you probably will.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best read in parallel text, 10 Jun 2008
This review is from: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, & Scientific Method) (Paperback)
This edition of the Tractatus presents Ogden's translation alongside Wittgenstein's original German. If you can read German, this IMO is the edition to get. Wittgenstein is notoriously difficult to translate (some maintain that he is untranslatable) and despite the excellence of Ogdens rendition, there are places in which the original German has, at least to my reading, connotations that the English does not.

As the closing sentence says, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" - which is as good an excuse as any for my saying no more ;-)
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