Norman Malcolm
Nothing Is Hidden: Wittgenstein's Criticism of His Early Thought.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986. First edition. 0631137440 xii/252 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition.
"Wittgenstein believed the best way to understand the "Philosophical Investigations" was to come to it via the "Tractatus." Norman Malcolm shares this belief and in this new book presents the dramatic conflict between two radically different philosophical positions. Contrary to some current interpretations, Malcolm believes that when Wittgenstein wrote the "Investigations" he had an exact knowledge of the "Tractatus" and, in purging himself of its thinking, created a revolutionary outlook which has not yet been assimilated by academic philosophy."