Immediately upon its posthumous publication in 1953, Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Phil
osophical Investigations" was hailed as a masterpiece, and the ensuing years hav
e confirmed this initial assessment. Today it is widely acknowledged to be the s
ingle most important philosophical work of the twentieth century.
In this defin
itive new en face German-English edition, Wittgenstein experts Peter Hacker and
Joachim Schulte have incorporated significant editorial changes to earlier editi
ons of "Philosophical Investigations" in order to reflect more closely Wittgenst
ein's original intentions. Notable revisions include the placement of Wittgenste
in's notes - "Randbemerkungen - " into their designated positions in the text, s
ome corrections to the originally published German text, and the numbering of al
l the remarks in what was Part 2 and is now named "Philosophy of Psychology - A
Fragment." Extensive modifications and corrections have also been made to G. E.
M. Anscombe's original English translation. Detailed editorial endnotes have bee
n added to illuminate difficult translation decisions and to identify references
and allusions in Wittgenstein's original text.
