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Haller (Karl-Franzens-Universitat, Austria) has assembled essays hitherto unavailable in English on questions of the Austrian character of Wittgenstein's thought, the classification of Wittgenstein's thought (neopositivist, neo-Kantian, sceptic), Wittgenstein's historical influences or antecedents and scholarship on "forms of life." A miscellany of issues in Wittgenstein scholarship are discussed: praxeological foundationalism; the Austrian character of Wittgenstein's work; the rejection of the "two Wittgensteins" idea (one of whom destroyed the work of the other); philosophy as the custodian of grammar; positivism; philosophical progress; Wittgenstein as critic of civilization (not culture); the dissolution of metaphysical questions in silence; the concept of seeing-as; and language games. The work concludes with companion chapters on Wittgenstein's notion of the common behavior of mankind and forms of life. Haller argues against Newton Garver's thesis (in Grazer Philosophischen Studien 21, 1984) that Wittgenstein's use of the term "form of life" in the Philosophical Investigations admits only of the singular. Because of its Austrian slant on Wittgenstein scholarship today, Haller's book is important. Moreover, readers may wish to juxtapose its history of ideas approach with the philosophical approach of the recent Anglo-American study by Norman Malcolm (Wittgenstein: Nothing is Hidden, CH, May '87). F. J. Hoffman University of Montevallo