Stock# 85853
Description
First edition, with parallel texts in German and English
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956.
Compiled from Wittgenstein's manuscripts by his literary executors G.H. von Wright, Rush Rhees, G.E.M. Anscombe, Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics was published five years after his death and translated from German by Anscombe. Together with Philosophical Investigations (1953), it was met with many detractors, including Wittgenstein's former mentor, Bertrand Russell, who stated, "The earlier Wittgenstein, whom I knew intimately, was a man addicted to passionately intense thinking... The later Wittgenstein, on the contrary, seems to have grown tired of serious thinking and to have invented a doctrine which would make such an activity unnecessary."
Condition Description
Octavo (6" w x 9" h). Original paper dust jacket (edged with linen, lightly soiled) over original blue cloth (spine lettered in gilt). Unclipped ("37 s. 6 d. net" price on front flap). Pastedowns embrowned under flaps and minor embrowning on endpapers facing linen trim. Housed in quarter morocco over marbled board clamshell case. xix [+ xixe], [1, 1e, both blank], 196 [+ 196e], [1, blank], 197-204.
Reference
Frohmann, Bernd. "Psychopompos philosophikos." Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Archives 7, no. 1 (1987): 91-96.