PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. The copy of British historian and social theorist Peter Laslett. Text in English and German. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Publisher's errata slip tipped in at page viii. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the ownership inscription of Peter Laslett in black ink on the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the very good rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears, a few marks to the upper panel and some fading of the spine. Not price-clipped (27s 6d net to the lower front flap).

One of the most important works of twentieth-century philosophy. From the library of the British historian and social theorist Peter Laslett (1915–2001), who drew extensively on Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy in his work on political theory and social history. A central figure at Cambridge, Laslett applied Wittgenstein's ideas on language and meaning, most notably in his edited series Philosophy, Politics and Society, to move beyond abstract, ahistorical approaches and toward contextual, linguistic, and socially grounded analyses of political thought.