Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning

This is a much revised and extended new edition of <i>Part I</i> of the first volume of the monumental four-volume <i>Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations</i>. <ul type="disc"> <li>Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was written <li>Following Baker&#8217;s death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has rewritten many essays completely <li><i>Part I: Essays</i> now includes two completely new essays: 'Meaning and Use' and 'The Recantation of a Metaphysician'; the essays: &#8216;The Augustinian Conception of Language&#8217;, &#8216;The Language-Game Method&#8217;, &#8216;Contextual Dicta and Contextual Principles&#8217;, &#8216;Philosophy&#8217;, &#8216;Surveyability and Surveyable Representations&#8217;, and &#8216;Truth and the General Propositional Form&#8217; 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 <li>The accompanying <i>Part II:&#160;&#160;Exegesis &#167;&#167;1-184</i> - has been thoroughly revised in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgenstein&#8217;s <i>Nachlass</i>, and includes many new interpretations of the remarks, a history of the composition of the <i>Philosophical Investigations</i> and an overview of its structure. <li>The revisions will ensure that this remains the definitive reference work on Wittgenstein&#8217;s masterpiece for the foreseeable future </ul>