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Auction archive: Lot number 247

The Blue Book

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,800
Auction archive: Lot number 247

The Blue Book

Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$4,800
Beschreibung:

Title: The Blue Book Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: 1933–34 Description: 69 carbon typed pages (on recto sides only), with holographic corrections throughout (including a 3-line note at bottom of p. 67), presumably in Wittgenstein’s hand. 10x8, pages bound inside a bit larger "'Elfaco' Manilla Flat File" folders with inner metal bracket, housed in custom blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Unpublished carbon typescript. Although never published, the Blue Book, are an important set of notes dictated to his class at Cambridge in 1933–1934 and contains seeds of Wittgenstein's later thoughts on language (later developed in the Investigations), and is widely read today as a turning point in his philosophy of language. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear, occasional foxing, light edge wear; else very good in a fine clamshell box. Item number: 172685

Auction archive: Lot number 247
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: The Blue Book Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig J. Place: [No place] Publisher: Date: 1933–34 Description: 69 carbon typed pages (on recto sides only), with holographic corrections throughout (including a 3-line note at bottom of p. 67), presumably in Wittgenstein’s hand. 10x8, pages bound inside a bit larger "'Elfaco' Manilla Flat File" folders with inner metal bracket, housed in custom blue cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Unpublished carbon typescript. Although never published, the Blue Book, are an important set of notes dictated to his class at Cambridge in 1933–1934 and contains seeds of Wittgenstein's later thoughts on language (later developed in the Investigations), and is widely read today as a turning point in his philosophy of language. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear, occasional foxing, light edge wear; else very good in a fine clamshell box. Item number: 172685

Auction archive: Lot number 247
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2006
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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