Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Side-by-Side-by-Side Edition)
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein; edited by Kevin C. Klement |
|---|---|
| Published | 1922 |
| Format | Book |
| Original | Read the original |
TL;DR — Wittgenstein’s 1922 Tractatus with the German original and both standard English translations in parallel columns, plus Russell’s introduction.
Version 0.61 (March 2022) of an edition typeset by Kevin C. Klement, a philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Each page sets Wittgenstein’s German beside the Ogden/Ramsey translation of 1922 and the Pears/McGuinness translation of 1961, with Bertrand Russell’s original introduction and a hyperlinked index.
The Tractatus is a sequence of numbered propositions on logic, language and the world, running from “The world is everything that is the case” to its closing line on what must be passed over in silence. It was the only book-length philosophical work Wittgenstein published in his lifetime.
What it is: a classic of twentieth-century philosophy in a careful scholarly edition distributed free by its editor from his university site.
Where this came from
- A copy saved in October 2026.
- Edition page and downloads at UMass Amherst (Kevin C. Klement).
120 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.