num_pages: 210
description: s/t: Preliminary Studies for the Philosophical InvestigationsThese works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important &amp; influential philosophical work of modern times. The Blue Book is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge students in 1933-34: the Brown Book was a draft for what eventually became the growth of the 1st part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination &amp; growth of the ideas which found their final expression in his later work. It's indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought &amp; to all those who wish to study at 1st-hand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.
language: English
title: The Blue and Brown Books
titlecomplete: The Blue and Brown Books
genres: Linguistics, Language, History, College, Philosophy, Reference, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2423
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell