This 1st volume of Wittgenstein's Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology was written between 10/1948 & 3/1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin & was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work which he had begun in 1946 & which in its entirety constitutes the source material for Part II of the "Philosophical Investigations". When, later in 1949, Wittgenstein composed the manuscript for Part II he selected more than half the remarks for it from the Dublin manuscript. Altho this material is a direct continuation of the writings which make up the two volumes of the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology it deserves more than they to be regarded as a "preliminary study" for the 2nd part of his "chef-d'oeuvre".
This 1st volume of Wittgenstein's Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology was written between 10/1948 & 3/1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin & was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work which he had begun in 1946 & which in its entirety constitutes the source material for Part II of the "Philosophical Investigations". When, later in 1949, Wittgenstein composed the manuscript for Part II he selected more than half the remarks for it from the Dublin manuscript. Altho this material is a direct continuation of the writings which make up the two volumes of the Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology it deserves more than they to be regarded as a "preliminary study" for the 2nd part of his "chef-d'oeuvre".