Paperback, 175 pages
Spanish language
Published April 10, 2003 by Alianza.
Como señaló Bertrand Russell en el prólogo a la traducción inglesa de 1922, reproducido en esta edición, el Tractatus logico-philosophicus «merece por su intento, objeto y profundidad, que se le considere un acontecimiento de suma importancia en el mundo filosófico». Esta obra clave de Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), a la vez clara y difícil, crispada y rigurosa, ofrece en un lenguaje aforístico, digno de la mejor prosa alemana, una filosofía del lenguaje y de la matemática, una reflexión acerca de la naturaleza y de la actividad filosófica, y una concepción del mundo.
Admittedly only made it twenty pages or so into this thing. An intolerably obtuse book wrapped in a guise of simplicity. The entire premise of "if a perfect language could exist, this is what it would look like" is absurd and approaches the realm of egomaniacal. Even Wittgenstein later thought he was wrong.
The ingenious work which, had it been true, would have provided a firm foundation for Positivism and provided justification for Philosophy's existence. It also would have pretty much been the last word on the nature of and philosophical limits of language. Instead Wittgenstein repudiated this view and put a nail in the coffin with P.I.
Elegant, minimal, logically crystalline. And mostly wrong.
