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==About Wittgenstein’s works and The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project’s policy==
==About Wittgenstein’s works and The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project’s policy==
Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little: a very short review of Peter Coffey’s ''The Science of Logic''; the ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''; a dictionary, or rather a spelling book, for German-speaking schoolchildren; an academic article by the title ''Some Remarks on Logical Form''; a letter to the editor of ''Mind''. Almost everything we now have in volume format was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe, R. Rhees and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.
Wittgenstein wrote a lot but published little: a very short review of Peter Coffey’s ''[[The Science of Logic]]''; the ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''; a [[dictionary|Wörterbuch für Volks- und Bürgerschulen]], or rather a spelling book, for German-speaking schoolchildren; an academic article by the title ''[[Some Remarks on Logical Form]]''; a letter to the editor of ''Mind''. Almost everything we now have in volume format was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe, R. Rhees and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.


Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself – the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein – has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/wittgenstein/ The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge]</span>, and the work of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span>. Much of the digitalized content has been released under the <span class="plainlinks">[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license]</span>.
Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself – the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein – has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/wren-digital-library/modern-manuscripts/wittgenstein/ The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge]</span>, and the work of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span>. Much of the digitalized content has been released under the <span class="plainlinks">[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license]</span>.
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Based on our expertise in the field of copyright, we at The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project decided to only publish those texts for which we had strong reasons to determine that the editors' work can not be considered creative. The list of available texts meeting these criteria is constantly being updated.
Based on our expertise in the field of copyright, we at The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project decided to only publish those texts for which we had strong reasons to determine that the editors' work can not be considered creative. The list of available texts meeting these criteria is constantly being updated.
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==Individual works==
==Individual works==
This paragraph lists Wittgenstein’s writings that are available on this website and provides a very short introduction to their editorial history and philosophical content.
This paragraph lists Wittgenstein’s writings that are available on this website and provides a very short introduction to their editorial history and philosophical content.