The Enchantment of Words Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [Hardcover]

The Enchantment of Wordsis a study of Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, theTractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in theTractatus. McManus's study of the work offers novel readings of all its major themes and sheds light on issues in metaphysics, ethics and the philosophies of mind, language, and logic.

1. Introduction
2. Some Historical Preliminaries
3. Objects, Names, Facts, and Propositions
4. The Method of theTractatus
5. The Picture Analogy
6. Logical and Ontological Types
7. The Supposed 'Con-formity' of Language and World
8. Subjectivity
9. Objects Revisited
10. Method Revisited
11. The General Form of the Proposition
12. Problem Cases for the General Form
13. Ethics and 'the Inexpressible'
14. Ethics and 'the Ladder'
15. Conclusion
Appendix A: The Later Wittgenstein
Appendix B: List of Abbreviations Used for Particular 'Theses' of theTractatus

Denis McManusis Reader and Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of Southampton