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Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little: a very short review of Peter Coffey’s ''[[The Science of Logic]]''; the ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''; a [[ | Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little: a very short review of Peter Coffey’s ''[[The Science of Logic]]''; the ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''; a [[Wörterbuch für Volks- und Bürgerschulen|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 volume format 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. | ||
Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself – the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein – has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/wittgenstein/ The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge]</span>, and the work of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span>. Much of the digitalized content has been released under the <span class="plainlinks">[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license]</span>. | Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself – the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein – has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/wittgenstein/ The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge]</span>, and the work of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span>. Much of the digitalized content has been released under the <span class="plainlinks">[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license]</span>. | ||