num_pages: 208
description: These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among 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 first part of Philosophical Investigations. This book reveals the germination &amp; growth of the ideas which found their final expression in Witgenstein's later work. It's indispensable therefore to students of Witgenstein's thought &amp; to all those who wish to study at firsthand the mental processes of a thinker who fundamentally changed the course of modern philosophy.PrefaceThe Blue BookThe Brown BookIndex
language: English
title: The Blue and Brown Books
titlecomplete: The Blue and Brown Books
genres: 20th Century, Germany, Language, Philosophy, Reference, Linguistics, College, German Literature, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2423
publisher: Harper & Row (NYC et al.)