The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. - The first available print publication of all known drafts of Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics - Includes a previously unrecognized first draft of the lecture and new transcriptions of all drafts - Transcriptions preserve the philosopher's emendations thus showing the development of the ideas in the lecture - Proposes a different draft as the version read by Wittgenstein in his 1929 lecture - Includes introductory essays on the origins of the material and on its meaning, content, and importance

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