オーストリアで生まれ、主にイギリスで活躍したルートヴィヒ・ヴィトゲンシュタイン（1889-1951年）は、非常に独創的な哲学者です。特に20世紀における言語哲学、論理哲学、心の哲学分野での発展は、彼に負うところが大きく、哲学の域を超え、文学、言語学、人類学、心理学、社会学にも多大な影響を与えました。本書ではその考え方の本質と影響を検証し、今もなお人々を魅了してやまない人気哲学者の思想に深く迫ります。(cf. Analytics Philosophy, #542; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Oxford World's Classics))
    

• Wittgenstein is probably the philosopher whom general readers are most interested in
• His work revolutionized philosophy in the twentieth century, and has given rise to many new developments in the philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of mind
• He has also influenced fields outside philosophy, including literature, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. This is the ideal book for people in these fields who need to know more about his views.
• A. C. Grayling writes very accessibly for non-specialists - apart from writing books on philosophy, he has columns in the Guardian and Independent

 
​Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein's continuing influence on contemporary thought.