This original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher’s literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles.


Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between language and games.

Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein’s literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right.

D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies.

Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse.

The second edition includes as a preface Rhees’ article, ‘The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy’, first published in 1994.

It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees’ reflections of Wittgenstein, his teacher.