Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life

Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality – topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career.

• Authoritative interpretation of Wittgenstein's last great work, On Certainty, by one of his closest friends.
• Debunks misconceptions about Wittgenstein's On Certainty and shows that it is an essay on logic.
• Exposes the continuity in Wittgenstein's thought, and the radical character of his conclusions.
• Contains a substantial and illuminating afterword discussing current scholarship surrounding On Certainty, and its relationship to Rhees's work on this subject.

Authors: Rush Rhees, D. Z. Phillips

Format: Paperback

Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781405134248

Publication date: 20050501