This original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between language and games, written by one of the philosopher’s literary executors and closest friends, has now been updated to include two additional articles.

• Updated edition of this original critique of Wittgenstein’s analogy between language and games.
  
• Rush Rhees was one of Wittgenstein’s literary executors and closest friends, as well as being an outstanding philosopher in his own right.
  
• D.Z. Phillips was Director of the Rush Rhees Archive and the Associated Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies.
  
• Constitutes a major contribution to Wittgenstein scholarship and to philosophical debates about the possibility of discourse.
  
• The second edition includes as a preface Rhees’ article, ‘The Fundamental Problems of Philosophy’, first published in 1994.
  
• It also includes as a second appendix some of Rhees’ reflections of Wittgenstein, his teacher.