Marie McGinn provides a clear, comprehensive, and original interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and of its relation to Wittgenstein's later work. The Tractatus is one of the most famous works of early analytic philosophy, the interpretation of which has always been a matter for controversy and is currently the focus for an important philosophical debate.

• 1: The Single Great Problem


• 2: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 1: Propositions with Sense


• 3: Wittgenstein's Critique of Frege and Russell 2: The Propositions Of Logic


• 4: Pictures


• 5: Propositions


• 6: The Opening of the Tractatus


• 7: Variables and Formal Concepts


• 8: Molecular Propositions


• 9: Inference and Operations


• 10: Logic and the General Form of a Proposition


• 11: Logic and Solipsism


• 12: Turning the Examination Round