Ludwig Wittgenstein
Bemerkungen über die Farben/Remarks on Colour.
University of California Press, 1977. Translated by Linda L. McAlister and Margarete Schättle. 0520033353 63/63e pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", is bound in brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in near fine condition, with some offsetting on endpapers from jacket flaps. Binding is solid, with clean and bright interior. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with mild foxing to flaps. Opposite pages are numbered in duplicate, with parallel German and English texts.
"This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour (metallic colour, the colours of flames, etc.) and of luminosity―a theme which Wittgenstein treats in such a way as to destroy the traditional idea that colour is a simple and logically uniform kind of thing."