Phenomenology, Logic, and Liberation From Grammar

Abstract

gist’, with a view to uncovering the role that this figure played in the transformation of the author of the Tractatus into that of the Philosophical Investigations . The story of his rise is that of an attempt to make good on commitments inherent to the early Wittgenstein’s conception of language and logic. The story of his fall is that of an abandonment not only of those commitments but also of a conception of ‘the task of philosophy’ (NB, 2). 1