The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar andNecessity (the second volume of the landmark analyticalcommentary on Wittgenstein s PhilosophicalInvestigations) now includes extensively revised andsupplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex andcontroversial remarks on following rules. * Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of onenew essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions ofrule-following * Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein sconception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity * Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result oftaking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of theNachlass * Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-followingthat have raged over the past 20 years