Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our LifeISBN: 978-1-4051-0579-8
Hardcover
208 pages
January 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter
of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns
logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied
Wittgenstein since early in his career.
- Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work,
On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
- Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty
and shows that it is an essay on logic.
- Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the
radical character of his conclusions.
- Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.