âThe author conceives of the early and later Wittgensteinâs attitude towards the realism-idealism controversy as the key for solving many crucial interpretive problems at one stroke. The book provides a very interesting and original contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship. All those who wish to deepen their understanding of Wittgensteinâs philosophy as a whole should read Bartmannâs book.â
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Pasquale Frascolla, Professor in Philosophy of Language, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
âWe are seeing right now the emergence of a new generation of Wittgenstein scholarship which seeks to get beyond the positions and controversies of recent years. Marius Bartmannâs clearly and compellingly argued book makes a valuable contribution to this changing debate by focusing on Wittgensteinâs effort to overcome the dichotomy between realism and idealism. That perspective allows him to look in a new and illuminating fashion at Wittgensteinâs early concern with the unity of the proposition and his later concern with the topic of rule-following.â