Editing Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (section)

== Editions ==

The ''Tractatus'' is the English translation of:
* ''Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung'', [[Wilhelm Ostwald]] (ed.), ''Annalen der Naturphilosophie'', 14 (1921), [[Leipzig]].

A notable German edition of the works of Wittgenstein is:
* ''Werkausgabe'' (Vol. 1 includes the ''Tractatus''). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.

The first two English translations of the ''Tractatus'', as well as the first publication in German from 1921, include an introduction by [[Bertrand Russell]]. Wittgenstein revised the Ogden translation.<ref name="Prototractatus" />

* [[Charles Kay Ogden|C. K. Ogden]] (1922), prepared, with assistance from [[G. E. Moore]], [[F. P. Ramsey]], and Wittgenstein himself, for Routledge & Kegan Paul, a parallel edition including the German text on the facing page to the English text. Revised edition, 1933; 1981 printing: {{isbn|0-415-05186-X}}; 1999 Dover reprint. 
* [[David Pears]] and [[Brian McGuinness]] (1961), Routledge, hardcover: {{isbn|0-7100-3004-5}}, 1974 paperback: {{isbn|0-415-02825-6}}, 2001 hardcover: {{isbn|0-415-25562-7}}, 2001 paperback: {{isbn|0-415-25408-6}}. ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition'', edited by Luciano Bazzocchi, introduction by [[Peter Hacker|P. M. S. Hacker]], 2021: {{isbn|978-1839982095}}
* [[Daniel Kolak]] (1998), ''Wittgenstein's Tractatus'', with a preface, introduction, and endnotes by the translator. Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company: {{isbn|155934993X}}
* Michael Beaney (2023), ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press. {{isbn|978-0198861379}}
* Alexander Booth (2023), ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''. Penguin Classics. {{isbn|978-0241681954}}<ref>Egid, Jonathan. [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/tractatus-logico-philosophicus-ludwig-wittgenstein-michael-beaney-alexander-booth-review-jonathan-egid/ "Tract for our times: Two translations of Wittgenstein’s seminal work"], ''TLS'', February 9, 2024 (review of Beaney and Booth translations)</ref><ref>[[Jonathan Rée|Rée, Jonathan]]. [https://literaryreview.co.uk/silence-please "Silence Please: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"], ''Literary Review'', March 2024 (review of Beaney and Booth translations)</ref>
* [[Damion Searls]] (2024), ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation'', with a foreword by [[Marjorie Perloff]]. New York: Liveright. {{isbn|978-1324092438}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=A. W. |author-link=Adrian William Moore|date=2024-08-01 |title=A Tove on the Table |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/a.w.-moore/a-tove-on-the-table |access-date=2024-07-26 |work=[[London Review of Books]] |language=en |volume=46 |issue=15 |issn=0260-9592}} (review of Beaney, Booth, and Searls translations)</ref>
* David Stern, Katia Saporiti, Joachim Schulte (forthcoming from Cambridge, according to [[Adrian William Moore|A. W. Moore]]).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=A. W. |author-link=Adrian William Moore |date=2024-08-01 |title=A Tove on the Table |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/a.w.-moore/a-tove-on-the-table |work=[[London Review of Books]] |language=en |volume=46 |issue=15 |issn=0260-9592}}</ref>

A manuscript of an early version of the ''Tractatus'' was discovered in Vienna in 1965 by [[Georg Henrik von Wright]], who named it the ''Prototractatus'' and provided a historical introduction to a published facsimile with English translation: {{cite book|last=Wittgenstein|first=Ludwig|title=Prototractatus, an Early Version of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus|editor-last=McGuinness|editor1-first=B. F.|editor2-last=Nyberg|editor2-first=T.|editor3-last=von Wright|editor3-first=G. H.|translator1-last=Pears|translator1-first=D. F.|translator2-last=McGuinness|translator2-first=B. F.|location=London|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|year=1971|isbn=9780415136679}} <ref name="Prototractatus">{{citation |title=Reviewed Work(s): ''Prototractatus, an Early Version of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' |author=R. W. Newell |journal=Philosophy |volume=48 |issue=183 |pages=97–99 |date=January 1973 |issn=0031-8191 |postscript=. |jstor=3749717 |doi=10.1017/s0031819100060514|s2cid=171098335 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Venturinha|editor-first=Nuno|title=Wittgenstein After his Nachlass|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2010|chapter=The 'Prototractatus' and Its Corrections|last=Bazzocchi|first=Luciano|pages=11–29|isbn=978-0-230-27494-5}}</ref>