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Informationen zum Autor C. Grant Luckhardt is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia State University, where he was a member of the Philosophy Department and for many years the Director of the Honors Program. His research interests are in Wittgenstein and in Native American Thought and Culture. Maximillian E. Aue is Chair and Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University. His publications include translations of the following works by Wittgenstein: Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology , vol. II (1980), Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology , vol. I (1982), and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology , vol. II (1992). Klappentext In 1933, Wittgenstein set out to dictate a collection of his recent writings to a typist in the form of a book. Even as he was dictating he began revising the text extensively, so that the surviving typewritten manuscript contains numerous corrections, additions, deletions, alternative words and phrasings, suggestions for moves within the text, and marginal comments in both handwritten and typed form. Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog no. TS 213) is presented here for the first time in an en-face German-English scholars' edition, complete with clear indications to help the reader identify the various levels of Wittgenstein's editing. This text provided a rich source of material for Wittgenstein's subsequent writings, and therefore serves as a key to understanding much of his later philosophy. Zusammenfassung * Presents long-awaited scholar's edition of important material from 1933! Wittgenstein's first efforts to set out his new thoughts after the publication of the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Note. Translator's Note. Part I: Understanding . 1. Understanding, meaning, drop out of our considerations. 2. "Meaning" used amorphously. "Meaning" used equivocally. 3. Understanding as a correlate of an explanation . 4. Understanding a command the condition for our being able to obey it. Understanding a proposition the condition for our acting in accordance. with it. 5. Interpreting . Do we interpret every sign?. 6. One says: understanding a word means knowing how it is used. What does it mean to know that? We have this knowledge in reserve, as it were. 6a. Meaning a proposition seriously or in jest, etc. Part II: Meaning. 7. The concept of meaning originates in a primitive philosophical conception of language. 8. Meaning, the position of the word in grammatical space. 9. The meaning of a word is what the explanation of its meaning explains. 10. "The meaning of a sign is given by its effect (the associations that it triggers, etc.).". 11. Meaning as feeling, standing behind the word; expressed with a gesture. 12. In giving an ostensive explanation of signs one doesn't leave grammar. 13. "Primary and secondary signs". Word and sample. Ostensive definition. 14. What interests philosophy about the sign, the meaning that is decisive for it, is what is laid down in the grammar of the sign. Part III: Proposition. Sense of a proposition . 15. "Sentence" and "language" blurred concepts. 16. Logic talks about sentences and words in the ordinary sense, not in some abstract sense. 17. Sentence and sentence-sound. 18. What is to count as a proposition is determined in grammar. 19. Grammatical rules determine the sense of a proposition; and whether a. combination of words makes sense. 20. The sense of a proposition not a soul. 21. Similarity of proposition and picture. 22. Propositions compared to genre-paintings. (Related to this: understan...
