title: Wittgenstein: Understanding And Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis 1-184
author:  Gordon P. Baker 
description: Published to widespread acclaim between 1980 and 1996, the monumental four volume <i>Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations</i> has become the definitive reference work on Wittgensteins masterpiece. This revised edition of the first volume, <i>Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning</i>, which itself comprises two parts (<i>Essays</i> and <i>Exegesis 1184</i>), takes into account much material that was unavailable when the first edition was written. Following G.P. Bakers death in 2002, P.M.S. Hacker has thoroughly revised both parts, rewriting many sections completely and often proposing fresh interpretations. <i>Part I: Essays</i> now includes two new essays: Meaning and Use and The Recantation of a Metaphysician, and most of the previous essays have been rewritten and expanded. <i>Part II: Exegesis 1</i><i>184</i> has been exhaustively reworked in the light of the electronic publication of Wittgensteins <i>Nachlass</i>. These revisions will ensure that this remains the essential reference work on the <i>Philosophical Investigations</i> for the foreseeable future.
zlib_text: Wittgenstein's Mistress
  
  David Markson
  
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  ISBN: 1-56478-211-5 LC: 87-73068
  
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  "What an extraordinary change takes place ... when for the first time the fact
  that everything depends upon how a thing is thought first enters the
  consciousness, when, in consequence, thought in its absoluteness replaces an
  apparent reality."
  
  —Kierkegaard
  
  "When I was still doubtful as to his ability, I asked G. E. Moore for his
  opinion. Moore replied, 'I think very well of him indeed.' When I enquired the
  reason for his opinion, he said that it was because Wittgenstein was the only
  man who looked puzzled at his lectures."
  
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