Joachim Schulte's introduction provides a distinctive and masterful account of the full range of Wittgenstein's thought. It is concise but not compressed, substantive but not overloaded with developmental or technical detail, informed by the latest scholarship but not pedantic. Beginners will find it accessible and seasoned students of Wittgenstein will appreciate it for the illuminating overview it provides.

In the forefront of German-speaking Wittgenstein experts, Joachim Schulte is one of the editors of the German edition of Wittgenstein's works. He is the author of Erlebnis und Ausdruck: Wittgensteins Philosophie der Psychologie; the editor of Vortrag über Ethik und kleine Schriften, of Waismann's Wille und Motiv, and of Waismann's Logik, Sprache, Philosophie; and is the translator of Bernard William's Problems of the Self (Probleme des Selbst).