Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating
philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed
in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only book he
published in his lifetime. He tackles nothing less than the question of
whether there is such a thing as a logically perfect language and, armed
with it, what we can say about the nature of the world itself. Pushing
the limits of language, logic and philosophy, the Tractatus is a
brilliant, cryptic and hypnotic tour de force, exerting a major impact
on twentieth-century philosophy and stirring the imagination today.
With a new foreword by Ray Monk.