A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus

A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus, by Alexander Maslow is a rigorous, historically situated guide to one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic philosophical texts. Writing with candor about the Tractatus’s “terse, cryptic, aphoristic” style, Maslow offers a lucid reconstruction of its core claims while acknowledging the interpretive perils the book poses even to specialists. Drawing on first—hand interlocutors and early readers—Bertrand Russell, F. P. Ramsey, and Moritz Schlick—he sit...