<P>Written by&nbsp;a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the <EM>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</EM>. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein's brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes.&nbsp;He introduces and analyzes: </P>
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<LI>Wittgenstein's life and the background to the <EM>Tractatus</EM></LI>
<LI>the ideas and text of the <EM>Tractatus</EM></LI>
<LI>the continuing importance of Wittgenstein's work to philosophy today,&nbsp; </LI></UL>
<P>Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics. </P>