<P>Written by a leading expert, this is the ideal guide to the only book Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, the <EM>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</EM>. Michael Morris makes sense of Wittgenstein¿s brief but often cryptic text, highlighting its key themes. He introduces and analyzes: </P><UL><LI>Wittgenstein¿s life and the background to the <EM>Tractatus</EM></LI><LI>the ideas and text of the <EM>Tractatus</EM></LI><LI>the continuing importance of Wittgenstein''s work to philosophy today, </LI></UL><P>Wittgenstein is the most important twentieth-century philosopher in the English speaking world. This book will be essential reading for all students of philosophy of language and metaphysics. </P>