Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language

First published in 2005. This book studies the often overlooked work of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logio-Philosophicus, the Tractatus and their later work being argued as being mutually illuminating. Bogen states that the works of Wittgenstein require a study of their points of contact which led to the formation of this title. This is accomplished by studying the text in two parts: its relevance to picture theory, the subsequent abandonment of the picture theory. Introduction; Chapter 1 The Picture Theory and The Tractatus Ontology; Chapter 2 The Abandonment of the Picture Theory; Chapter 3 Use;