Title: Truly miserable
Product review: This is one of the worst books ever written about any major philosopher. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that if Wittgenstein writes, say, "For heaven's sake, don't think for a moment that I believe that X," Cook's "quotation" will abridge this to the form "I believe that X." (For substantiation of this claim, I too refer interested readers to the journal article by Philip Dwyer which the first person to review the book referred to.) - I accept Professor Powell's comment in his review that in philosophy, it is possible to be wrong in an important and illuminating way, but Cook is regrettably wrong in an entirely unilluminating way. That a book this shoddy, this disingenuous, managed to be published by a respected university press, is simply a scandal of scholarship.
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