PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
by WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ LAMINATED D.J.
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OXFORD: BASIL BLACKWELL. FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ LAMINATED D.J.. PUB 1953. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. PARALLEL ENGLISH/GERMAN TEXTS WITH EACH 232 SEPARATELY NUMERED (TOTAL PAGES 464) TRANSLATED BY G.E.M. ANSCOMBE . BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE. BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A DATED PREVIOUS OWNER'S SIGNATURE/ADDRESS, AND THE TIP OF THE SPINE PANEL AND CORNERS ARE MODESTLY RUBBED/WORN. DESPITE THE LAMINATING OF THIS PALE GREEN D.J. IT DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE BEEN DAMAGED. THE SPINE PANEL IS FADED AND SUNNED WITH SOME LIGHT DUSTING TO THE FRONT PANEL BUT OTHERWISE A VERY NICE COPY, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A VERY PRESENTABLE COPY OF THIS HIGH SPOT OF 20TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY WITHOUT THE ERRATA SLIP. .
Synopsis
Philosophical Investigations (Philosophische Untersuchungen) is, along with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the two most influential works by the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. In it, Wittgenstein discusses numerous problems and puzzles in the fields of semantics, logic, philosophy of mathematics, and the philosophy of mind.
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- Bookseller
- JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COLLECTI014047I
- Title
- PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
- Author
- WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ LAMINATED D.J.
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- BASIL BLACKWELL
- Place of Publication
- OXFORD
- Date Published
- PUB 1953
- Keywords
- PARALLEL ENGLISH/GERMAN TEXTS WITH EACH 232 SEPARATELY NUMERED (TOTAL, PAGES 464) TRANSLATED BY G.E.M. ANSCOMBE, PHILOSOPHY
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