Status
Available
Call number
Call number
PH
Publication
Oxford : Blackwell, 1977.
Original publication date
1978
Physical description
63 p.; 23 cm
Local notes
This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features of different colours, of different kinds of colour (metallic colour, the colours of flames, etc.) and of luminosity—a theme which Wittgenstein treats in such a way as to destroy the traditional idea that colour is a simple and logically uniform kind of thing.