In this book, Michael Potter offers a fresh and compelling portrait of the birth and first several decades of analytic philosophy, one of the most important periods in philosophy s long history. He focuses on the period between the publication of Gottlob Frege s Begriffsschrift in 1879 and Frank Ramsey s death in 1930. Potter--one of the most influential writers on late 19th and early 20th century philosophy--presents a deep but accessible account of the break with Absolute Idealism and Neo-Kantianism, specifically, and more generally with many of the metaphysical preoccupations of...