Recommendations for books on Witt, Heidegger etc.

[Bretty123]

Hello again, I'm looking for some recommendations for books expanding and explaining the writings of wittgenstein and Heidegger. Rosa, what would you recommend starting with as far as delving into Wittgensteins writing and his ideas? I'm going to pick up his blue/brown books plus his other philo investigations and tractatus but besides that what is a good explanatory book?

Heidegger i'm alright in reading, like most philosophers I can understand them after understanding the way they use words and denote "things", but I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for some explanatory writings on Heideggerian thought?

[hoopla]

ambridge companion to Heidegger is suppsoed to be good. I've read a couple of its essays: it doesn't really discuss Being and Time as such, but seems to be more of an addition to it (I mean to say, its not like you can make sure that you've interpreted Being and Time right: get a text guide for that).

[which doctor]

I'm reading a book called A Very Short Introduction to Wittgenstein. It's not bad and gives you a [very] brief intro to Wittgenstein. From there you can decide if you want to read and learn more about Witt.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Bretty, I pinned a long list (plus some links) a few weeks ago.

http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=53152

Why do you need more?

[On Heidegger, I am not the person to ask since I would not touch his work with someone else's condom-covered barge pole.]

[Bretty123]

if i had to choose two to give the best interpretation on his work and help clearly summarize it.. what would you suggest? and why?

Thanks for your help.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Kenny's book still one of the best, but Stern's book is more up-to-date.

Stern, D. (1995), Wittgenstein On Mind And Language (Oxford University Press).

Kenny, A. (1973), Wittgenstein (Penguin Books).

But, remember, it is in fact impossible to summarise his work, since his work is aimed at advocating a method for unravelling metaphysics, not propounding yet another 'theory'.

[JimFar]

The revised (2005) edition of Kenny's Wittgenstein includes a new introduction which discusses some of the developments in Wittgenstein scholarship that have occured since 1973.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Thanks for that Jim, I have not looked at the 2005 edition; I will now!