Ludwig Wittgenstein

Bermerkungen über die Farben.

Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1979. Bibliothek Suhrkamp, 616. First edition. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe. 3518016164 128 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 4.75” x 7.25”, is bound in gray spine and boards, with gilt-lettered dark blue spine label. Previous owner's embossed stamp appears on title page. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket exhibits closed tears to front and rear panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.

“This book comprises material on color 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 colors, of different kinds of color (metallic color, the colors of flames etc.) & of luminosity--a theme which he treats in such a way as to destroy the traditional idea that color is a simple & logically uniform kind of thing.”