About the author

Public information about Lou Wei is limited, and no systematic record of his identity or career is currently available. Nevertheless, the six works listed in the catalog sketch the focus of his writing. He has long devoted himself to the study and interpretation of Wittgenstein. His representative works include Philosophical Investigations, Philosophical Investigations with Annotations, The Blue and Brown Books, Culture and Value, Ten Lectures on Wittgenstein, and Annotations on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. These works range from translations and annotations of classic texts to introductory explanations for general readers, covering such categories as Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy, culture, and philosophy readers. His writing emphasizes close reading and conceptual clarification; while introducing Wittgenstein's thought, he also seeks to lower the threshold for readers and offers an accessible path into this philosopher's world of language and mind.

Written (6)

Ten Lectures on Wittgenstein cover
Rating 4.3
Ten Lectures on Wittgenstein 楼巍 Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2024 Wittgenstein—paragon of genius, great philosopher of the twentieth century. Who studies philosophy without having read him? This book is a course of t…
The Blue and Brown Books cover
Rating 4.6
The Blue and Brown Books 维特根斯坦 / 楼巍 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 The Blue and Brown Books is a series of notes Wittgenstein dictated to his students in the 1930s, published in 1958. The book introduces and develops …
On Culture and Value cover
Rating 4.4
On Culture and Value 维特根斯坦 / 楼巍 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2020 Dubbed by Western scholars “the philosopher’s philosopher,” Wittgenstein left this final manuscript, which gathers his remarks from 1914 to 1951 on ph…
Philosophical Investigations cover
Rating 4.8
Philosophical Investigations 路德维希·维特根斯坦 / 楼巍 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019 This work approaches philosophical problems primarily from the angle of language: What is the meaning of words and propositions? What is understanding…
Philosophical Investigations with Annotations: A Collection cover
Rating 4.7
Philosophical Investigations with Annotations: A Collection 路德维希·维特根斯坦 / 楼巍 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019 Philosophical Investigations: Philosophical Investigations approaches philosophical problems mainly from the angle of language. These diverse problems…
Annotations on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations cover
Rating 4.0
Annotations on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations 楼巍 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2019 Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is an obscure yet highly important philosophical work. It gathers the fruits of Wittgenstein's long philos…

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