Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century.
How did his 20,000 pages of philosophical writing become published volumes? Using extensive archival material, this Element reconstructs and examines the way in which Wittgenstein\'s writings were edited over more than fif.
But the books in which his philosophy was published - with the exception of his early work Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - were posthumously edited from the writings he left to posterity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century