Wittgenstein Understanding and Meaning 2nd edition: Volume 1 [Kindle Edition]

This is a much revised and extended new edition of Part I of the first volume of the monumental four–volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations.

Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written
Following Baker s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many essays completely
Part I: Essays now includes two completely new essays: ′Meaning and Use′ and ′The Recantation of a Metaphysician′; the essays: The Augustinian Conception of Language , The Language–Game Method , Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles , Philosophy , Surveyability and Surveyable Representations , and Truth and the General Propositional Form are redrafted and expanded, incorporating new source materials and new arguments, as well as taking into account debates of the last quarter of a century
The accompanying Part II: Exegesis §§1–184 – has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein s Nachlass, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the Philosophical Investigations and an overview of its structure.
The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein s masterpiece for the foreseeable future