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  • The Great Riddle. Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2015. 148p. Hardback. Stephen Mulhall's recent book derived from his 2014 Stanton Lectures is a well written, carefully argued and sophisticated contribution which centrally rests upon a resolute reading of the early Wittgenstein. His project is to take the resolute reading combined with several other additional ways of reading Wittgenstein, such as Malcolm on analogy, to bring out hitherto unnoticed aspects of his work and offer a properly philosophically grounded articulation of grammatical Thomism. As the chapters progress there are steadily increasing layers of sophisticated Wittgenstein interpretation, such as that involving analogy, which build upon each other to claim that his later work has a perfectionist dimension which relates to the concerns of moral perfectionism and 'perfection' and 'transcendentals'. Mark Addis, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online |a 15/06/2016 (Publisher's information). € 69.30 (New) (Printed on Demand)  (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780198755326