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Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little. A very short, and hilarious, review of Peter Coffey’s ''The Science of Logic''. The ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''. A dictionary, or rather a spelling book, for German-speaking schoolchildren. An academic article by the title ''Some Remarks on Logical Form''. A letter to the editor of ''Mind''. | Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little. A very short, and hilarious, review of Peter Coffey’s ''The Science of Logic''. The ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''. A dictionary, or rather a spelling book, for German-speaking schoolchildren. An academic article by the title ''Some Remarks on Logical Form''. A letter to the editor of ''Mind''. | ||
Almost everything we now have in book form—in such a way that we can step into a shop and say “I’m looking for a copy of…”—was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.<ref>For more details, see von Wright, G.H. (1969). "The Wittgenstein Papers". ''Philosophical Review''. 78 (4): 483–503.</ref> | Almost everything we now have in book form—in such a way that we can step into a shop and say “I’m looking for a copy of…”—was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe, R. Rhees, and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.<ref>For more details, see von Wright, G.H. (1969). "The Wittgenstein Papers". ''Philosophical Review''. 78 (4): 483–503.</ref> | ||
[[File:Ludwig Wittgenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|right|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951). Photo by Moritz Nähr.]] | [[File:Ludwig Wittgenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|right|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951). Photo by Moritz Nähr.]] | ||