Lecture on Ethics E-Book

Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Seitenzahl: 135

Beschreibung

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. * The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics * Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts * Transcriptions preserve the philosopher's emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture * Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture * Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance

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This edition first published 2014

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Cover image: First page of Wittgenstein MS 139a. Reproduced by permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Acknowledgments

This volume is possible because of an understanding reached with Trinity College, Cambridge. The reproductions of MS 139a, MS 139b, and TS 207 are included by permission of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. We thank David McKitterick and Jonathan Smith of Trinity College, Cambridge, for granting the rights to reproduce facsimiles of the manuscripts. We are grateful also to the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, for permitting Valentina Di Lascio extended access to the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscripts and for producing facsimiles of MS 139a and TS 207. We also thank the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, for producing a digital replica of page 1 of MS 139b. We thank the Leverhulme Trust and the Mairie de Paris for having supported Valentina Di Lascio’s research, respectively, in the academic years 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, and 2012/13. We must also thank Anat Biletzki, Francesco Borghesi, Walter Cavini, Jean-Pierre Cometti, Simonetta Nannini, and David Stern for their support for this project and for commenting on earlier drafts of chapter 3. Johanna Wolff gave helpful advice on the translation of the letter by Margaret Stonborough, Wittgenstein’s sister, discussed in chapter 3. John Preston helped as a sleuth for historical facts. Finally, we owe a debt to Joachim Schulte for his insightful comments and expert advice on the penultimate draft of chapters 3 and 4. Notwithstanding the generous assistance rendered to us by the above, any errors or shortcomings remain solely our responsibility.