First edition. 8vo (224 x 145mm). 357, [1], pp., printed errata slip tipped-in opposite p. 9. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. A fine copy. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1975.
Edited by Rush Rhees from manuscripts written by Wittgenstein in 1929 and the first half of 1930, Philosophical Remarks constitutes an important point in the transitional period between Wittgenstein’s two great masterpieces Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations. The work includes the first articulation of Wittgenstein’s emerging hostility to the concept of the infinite in mathematics as well as an important discussion of the role of indispensable in language, framed in the context of a critique of Bertrand Russell’s The Analysis of Mind.
