Wittgenstein spent his last years dismantling the philosophy he had created in his youth. This book, published posthumously, proceeds through numbered remarks, examples, thought experiments, and questions that lead to more questions. Language games, family resemblances, the beetle in the box: these concepts have become part of how we think about meaning itself. The prose is spare and aphoristic. Reading it feels less like following an argument than like having your assumptions gently, persistently undermined until you no longer know what you thought you knew.