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Title: fascinating, clear & constructive on language and reality
Review: As a non-philosopher but interested in philosophy and history i found this book very interesting, refreshingly clear and well-written. His ideas of language as not representative of anything but itself, and the unfruitfulness of considering truth as the approximation of language with 'reality' i found very helpful and pragmatic, cutting across centuries of philosophical debate that did not seem to get any grip on the world. I have no idea how new all of this is but it does fit in with modern thinking in philosophy of science. Although i could not always quite follow the line of argument in his more technical pieces (which are more for his fellow-philosophers, i suppose), what he writes is certainly also meant for a broader public. Thought-provoking and sometimes, at first sight, outrageous, but consistently engaging and challenging.
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