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A Companion to Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus'
A Companion to Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus' Author:Max Black "It is one of the merits of Max Black?s Companion to the Tractatus that he emphasizes the continuity of Wittgenstein?s philosophical development by frequent quotation from his later writings."?New York Review of Books — "Black?s book is, in effect, two books in one, and each of them is very good. First, there is the useful Companion to the Tracta... more »tus: the store of information that anyone who picked up the Tractatus would want to have. . . . Second, there are the interpretive essays: always judicious, frequently illuminating. It is hard to see how [this book] could have been more complete."?Philosophical Books
The late Max Black was Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Human Letters at Cornell University and President of the International Institute of Philosophy. His other books include Language and Philosophy and The Labyrinth of Language.« less