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Book SynopsisWITTGENSTEIN MEANING AND MIND Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part II Exegesis 243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein's arguments in 243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in Wittgenstein's text is systematically analysed. Hacker's thoughtful, rigorous commentary clarifies problematic expressions, phrases, and sentences, and elaborates source remarks in Wittgenstein's Nachlass that shed light on the text, illustrating their bearing on deep philosophical problems.
This volume of exegesis of 243-427 has been extensively revised, incorporating numerous references to original and secondary texts of Wittgenstein that were not known to exist in 1990.The second edition features new comprehensive tables of correlation between the remarks of the Investigations and the source of the remarks in the Nachlass, and addresses a variety of controversies from the last quarter of
Table of Contents
Note to the second edition: Part II: Exegesis §§243 – 427 ix
Acknowledgements for the first edition xi
Introduction to Part II: Exegesis §§243 – 427 xv
Abbreviations xix
Chapter 1 The private language arguments (§§243 – 315) 1
Chapter 2 Thought (§§316 – 62) 137
Chapter 3 Imagination (§§363 – 97) 197
Chapter 4 The self and self-reference (§§398 – 411) 245
Chapter 5 Consciousness (§§412 – 27) 267
Index 285
