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Introduction / Edoardo Zamuner and D.K. Levy -- To represent as so / Charles Travis -- Mind -- Wittgenstein, qualia, and the autonomy of grammar / Julian Kiverstein -- Understanding (other) minds : Wittgenstein's phenomenological contribution / Daniel Zahavi and Søren Overgaard -- Wittgenstein, the secondary use of words and child psychology / Michel ter Hark -- Language -- Concepts and primitive language-games / Eva Picardi -- On the teaching and learning of words / Michael Luntley -- Meaning, rules, and conventions / Hans-Johann Glock -- Wittgenstein's critique of referential theories of meaning and the paradox of ostension : philosophical investigations 26-48 / David Stern -- The absolute -- The architecture of meaning : Wittgenstein's tractatus and formal semantics / Martin Stokhof -- De-transcendentalizing religion / Anat Biletzki -- Morality without agency / David Levy -- Afterword -- Wittgenstein passages / Denis Paul.

"Simone Weil is one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century. Her writings encompass an extraordinary breadth of subjects, including philosophy, religion, sociology, and politics. A political activist and resistance fighter, her accomplishments are even more astonishing in light of her death in 1943 at the age of thirty-four. Whilst Weil was concerned with deep philosophical questions - the nature of human thought and human faculties, the limits of language, and thought's contact with reality through mediation, science and beauty - the full significance of her work has frequently been obscured by her categorization as a purely religious writer or Christian mystic. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an expertly edited anthology of her most important writings, presenting Weil's philosophy as it relates to politics, the nature of work, human nature in its duality, necessity, beauty and goodness. D. K. Levy and Marina Barabas have translated all the extracts anew, including translations of important notes and references missing from existing English language editions of Weil's work. Following an extensive introduction by D. K. Levy which places Weil's life and thought in context, each section opens with a short introduction situating the chosen passages within Weil's oeuvre. Simone Weil: Basic Writings is an outstanding starting point for anyone seeking an introduction to Weil's philosophy, and also essential reading for students and scholars of Weil's thought in related disciplines"--

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts Transcriptions preserve the philosopher's emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance.