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Hanne Appelqvist, Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933, From the Notes of G. E. Moore, edited by David G. Stern, Brian Rogers, and Gabriel Citron
Wittgenstein’s Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938–1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies, edited, introduced, and annotated by Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter, Mind, Volume 128, Issue 511, July 2019, Pages 984–993, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy073 - Share Icon Share
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Wittgenstein published only one philosophical book, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, during his life, which makes him a curious figure among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. With the exception of Philosophical Investigations Part I, which he prepared for publication, most of Wittgenstein’s work has been transmitted to readers in the form of editions, produced by his literary executors Rush Rhees, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Georg Henrik von Wright from Wittgenstein’s Nachlass of some 20,000 pages. The editorial decisions made by the literary executors have also shaped the way in which this material has been presented. The controversies around the production of Philosophical Grammar are well known. In Culture and Value, Wittgenstein’s remarks on culture and art have been isolated from their original contexts in the manuscripts and presented as ‘notes which do not belong directly with his philosophical works’ (CV, p. ixe). Seen against this background and the resulting challenges for understanding Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the two recently published collections of lecture notes, taken respectively by G. E. Moore (1930–33) and Yorick Smythies (1938–41), are an extremely welcome addition to the corpus of Wittgenstein’s thought.