Lecture on Ethics

<p>The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein’s 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein’s oeuvre.</p> <ul> <li>The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics</li> <li>Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts</li> <li>Transcriptions preserve the philosopher’s emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture</li> <li>Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture</li> <li>Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance</li> </ul>