Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Excerpt)
| Author | Marie McGinn |
|---|---|
| Published | 1997 |
| Format | Book |
TL;DR — A phone scan of the first chapters of Marie McGinn’s guide to Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: method, the critique of Augustine and rule-following.
Marie McGinn’s guidebook was published by Routledge in 1997 in its Philosophy GuideBooks series. This 64-page scan, made with a phone scanning app, covers what appear to be its first three chapters: “Style and Method” (on the Investigations §§89–133), Wittgenstein’s critique of Augustine’s picture of language, and rules and rule-following, ending around the book’s page 132 with references and further reading.
The guide explains why the Investigations is written as numbered remarks rather than chapters and walks through its main arguments for students.
What it is: a partial scan of an in-copyright student guide from an academic publisher; the image quality is uneven and the OCR poor. The book was identified from its chapter headings, so treat the attribution as probable.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
64 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.