Este é um livro sobre a filosofia do conteúdo de Wittgenstein, ou seja, aquela dimensão da sua filosofia que não se preocupa com o desenvolvimento de uma teoria semântica formal, nem com o caráter qualitativo do pensamento, mas tem a ver como a intencionalidade do pensamento e da linguagem, que é o tema central das "Investigações filosóficas". O autor pretende extrair dos últimos escritos de Wittgenstein um relato sistemático sobre a filosofia do conteúdo.
Tim Thornton was born in Darlington in 1973. Despite a boarding-school education and a degree in Drama, his adulthood has largely been spent playing the drums, currently for alt-blues act Fink.
In 2006 he escaped from behind the drumkit and headed for his laptop where he attempted to do what few drummers had done before: string a written sentence together. In fact he managed around 15,000 of them, forming the backbone of his first novel, The Alternative Hero, published by Knopf in 2009.
In 2010 Tim's years of being in bands (9 unsigned, 2 signed) climaxed in a second novel, Death of an Unsigned Band, which contains a further 12,000 sentences, some of which contain verbs. It was released by Jonathan Cape in the UK, and might be available in other global destinations if you ask your bookstore very nicely.