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Wittgenstein, 40th Anniversary Edition Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief

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ISBN-10: 0520251814

ISBN-13: 9780520251816

Edition: 40th 2007

Authors: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Cyril Barrett, Yorick Smythies, Rush Rhees

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In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been compiled from notes taken down at the time by three of the students: Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and James Taylor. They have been supplemented by notes of conversations on Freud (to whom reference was made in the course on aesthetics) between Wittgenstein and Rush Rhees, and by notes of some lectures on religious belief. As very little is known of Wittgenstein's views on these subjects from his published works, these notes should be of considerable interest to students of contemporary philosophy. Further, their fresh and informal style should…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 40th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/21/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.20" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

Rush Rhees was in the Department of Philosophy at University College, Swansea, Wales. Anthony Kenny was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.