Language is the most important of all the instruments of civilization. This is the premise of a work whose significance to the study of language, literature, and philosophy has remained undiminished since its original publication in 1923. New Introduction by Umberto Eco; Indices.
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This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889-1957). Ogden was connected to several of the most significant figures of the modernist period, including[...]

Ludwig Wittgenstein is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" is the only book-length work of philosophy he published in his lifetime. Together, these two facts convey some idea of the power this work has exerted over the [...]