title: Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)
author:  Marie McGinn 
description: A beautifully lucid guide through the main themes of the Investigations ... The movement of Wittgenstein's thought, how the different topics hang together, why they come in the order they do--are all made clearer than any other discussion I know.<BR><b>&#150;Jane Heal, St. John's College, Cambridge</b><br /><br />McGinn's efforts to display the anti-theoretical thrust of Wittgenstein's thinking are effective ... [She] makes the <i>Investigations</i> more accessible to (advanced) undergraduates than anything else out there. For graduate students ... it could, coupled with the <i>Investigations</i>, become the standard introduction.<BR><b>&#150;<i>Teaching Philosophy</i></b>
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  Wittgenstein
    
  and the Philosophical Investigations
   
  ‘The movement of Wittgenstein’s thought, how the different topics
  hang together, why they come in the order they do—are all made
  clearer than in any other discussion I know. It assumes some basic
  knowledge of philosophy, but not much beyond that…anyone
  interested in Wittgenstein could read it with advantage.’
  (Jane Heal, St John’s College, Cambridge)
   
  Wittgenstein is one of the small number of twentieth-century
  philosophers who is well known outside philosophical circles. This
  may be due to his exceptional life and personality and the number of
  biographies and memoirs written about him. However, it is also because
  his writing has the power to interest the non-specialist reader in a way
  that other works of philosophy do not.
  This GuideBook gives students a clear and concise reading of
  Wittgenstein’s most important work—the Philosophical Investigations.
  McGinn argues that the unique style of the