Summary
Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Logical Philosophical Treatise
This is the only work of Wittgenstein's to be published during his lifetime. The project was to identify the connections between language and reality, and define the boundaries of science.
Wittgenstein wrote the Tractatus while he was a soldier and prisoner during the World War I. The book was first published in German in 1921 as Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung and is now generally considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century. A year later the Tractatus was published in England, with the original German text and a parallel printed English translation under the title Tractatus logico-philosophicus.
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