Nachlass

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

This electronic version of Wittgenstein's Nachlass includes a complete facsimile and transcription (without translations) of the philosopher's writings as catalogued by von Wright in his 1982 publication The Wittgenstein Papers. The CD-ROM allows you to perform full text and key word searches in the transcriptions of the manuscripts, or to locate individual pages within these items. Transcriptions include all underlinings, deletions, overwriting, marginal notes, and marks made by the author. You can jump to the relevant facsimile pages and view images of the original manuscripts. This is the most comprehensive and accurate collection of the Nachlass transcriptions, allowing you to search for subjects of interest with speed and ease. Wittgenstein's Nachlass is a joint publication by Oxford University Press and the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen. System Minimum 80486, 66MHz IBM PC or full compatible (Pentium recommended). 16Mb RAM, 38Mb hard-disk space to install and run the application (a total of 50Mb should be available during installation). Minimum 16 colour SVGA monitor with 800 x 600 pixels. Quad-speed CD-ROM drive. Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows NT4 or Windows 95. Microsoft mouse or compatible. Approximately 100 Mb of hard-disk space will be required to run all volumes.

CD-ROM

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1929) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

Described by Bertrand Russell as "the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating", he helped inspire two of the twentieth century's principal philosophical movements: the Vienna Circle and Oxford ordinary language philosophy. According to an end of the century poll, professional philosophers in Canada and the U.S. rank both his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations among the top five most important books in twentieth-century philosophy, the latter standing out as "...the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, appealing across diverse specializations and philosophical orientations". Wittgenstein's influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences, yet there are widely diverging interpretations of his thought.