"Language is the most important of all the instruments of civilization." The authors state this premise boldly in their preface to "The Meaning of Meaning," a classic work whose significance--and challenge--to the study of language, literature, and philosophy has remained undiminished since its original publication.

Much about language continues to be only hazily understood, distorted by our habitual attitude--often one of indifference--toward words, or by lingering assumptions based on discredited theories. What IS the relationship between words and what the words refer to? Between words...

Best known as the founder of Basic English, Charles Kay Ogden has also explored fields such as psychology, lexicography and prosody. This boxed set contains a new critical edition of The Meaning of Meaning. Based on the first edition of 1923, it restores the version of the Word Magic chapter eliminated from all subsequent editions. This edition illuminates the text by collating it with earlier serial publications, the holograph manuscript predating Ogden's collaboration with I.A. Richards, subsequent publications and Ogden's private correspondence.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The History of Civilization is a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. The aim of C. K. Ogden, the general editor, was to summarize, in one comprehensive synthesis, the most recent findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, and all conscientious students of civilization. Fist published from 1924-1938 to great acclaim, and during a period of great historical discovery, History is a work of the leading British and American scholars of the time.

The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all.
Its chief influence, at first, was on the Logical Positivists of the 1920s and 1930s, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of language, finding attractive, even if ultimately unsatisfactory, its view that propositions were pictures...