Remarks on Colour

I have enjoyed this book because it shows what Wittgenstein discussed in the class room...

This book seemed new to me so I was pleased. I was surprised it hadn't been bumped since padded envelopes aren't the most secure.

great book

There is an obvious and annoying error with the printout which makes the book unenjoyable to read. The English is printed on the left, while the German is printed on the right (upsetting the standard order). This is both unpleasant because (1) in all other Wittgenstein translations the English is conveniently set on the right and makes for easier reading, and (2) the German and English do not at all correspond to one another when you have the book open (i.e., you need to turn to the *previous* page to compare English and German). Overall, a regrettable purchase - even if Wittgenstein is brilliant and the *content* is obviously wonderful.

This is not a polished, coherent work but simply, as the title suggests, collected scattered thoughts, questions and observations on color. Wittgenstein is most interested in issues of clarity, purity, transparency, luminosity, muddiness, mixing and shading of colors. Also in the nature of individual colors, such as brown, which can't be "pure" and is not a rainbow color; in how white and black, light and shadow can affect colors; and in the nature of being sighted, blind and colorblind. He mentions a game in which one would arrange shades of a color with differing amounts of another color mixed in, e.g. "reddish green". The book is quite repetitive and very out of date - there are many things that physics at its current level of development could have clarified for W. One interesting bit: W says that people on the street often took him to be blind, which I guess one can sort of see in his gaze in the cover portrait of him. The edition featured here, like the Basil Blackwell one I read (I think the content is the same; the translators are Linda L. McAlister and Margarete Schättle), is a German-English bilingual edition, a definite convenience, since I could always look back on the original German when either the English was ambiguous, or there was some unusual term for which I wondered what the German was. The English translation is overall very well done and faithful to the original. I finished the whole book since it is short and I am interested in color theory, but I can't say I really recommend the book unless you're a die-hard Wittgenstein fan. I haven't read much W, and this book has not succeeded in motivating me to try anything else by him for now.

Awesome

Copy in excellent condition.

I would think they should be printed on a larger size of paper. Because all the books are printed on too small a scale for the reader to be comfortable.Opening the pages to read forces the book to break its back.

La impresión es terrible. Es el típico “pressed on demand”. Aún no he salido de mi asombro con este producto “fake”

I'm glad to have read this book but on reflection feel a little disappointed. These remarks are not developed and resolved in the same depth and thoroughness as his Philosophical Investigations. The book will be of interest to anyone wishing to complete their reading of Wittgenstein's work. However, I would suggest that it contains relatively few insights that an artist, who has drawn or painted from direct observation, would find unfamiliar.Unsurprisingly, the remarks concentrate on how visual experience can be named and the problems of translation into words. This is Wittgenstein's world. Perhaps an artist will know that we can sense visual experience and translate that experience in a richer fashion? The use of colour has considerable potential and, simply, Wittgenstein has not explored that potential it these remarks.