I am disappointed that the reviewer finds that "(David) Kishik's volume will be of little value to students of Wittgenstein," but nonetheless, the review itself is thoroughly entertaining and quite useful. The subject of enquiry is Wittgenstein's expression "forms of life," the basis for our knowledge and beliefs. Kishik's error appears to have been (from my reading) to equate 'form' with something innate or inherent, and something structural, much like Plato's forms. If so, the bulk of Wittgenstein mitigates against this interpretation, and this review is essentially a sustained and convincing argument against such a reading.
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