Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Wittgenstein once wrote that ''The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up until now has intangibly weighed down our consciousness''. Would Wittgenstein have been willing to describe the Tractatus as an attempt to find ''the liberating word''? This is the basic contention of this strikingly innovative study of the Tractatus. Matth...