Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

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During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, leading scholar of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualise the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death. Much like Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781324090809
ISBN10 1324090804
Number Of Pages 240
Item Weight 450 g
Product Dimensions 160 x 239 x 23 mm
Publisher / Reseller W W Norton & Co Ltd
Format hardback
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"Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher." -- Anil Gomes - The Guardian
"Perloff has done a great service in bringing this volume to fruition. Her inclusion of remarks from the recto pages is judicious and will engage the non-specialist reader… Her translation here has real presence: emotional ubiety." -- Ian Ground - The Times Literary Supplement
"These notebooks do reveal that in a sense Wittgenstein’s philosophy was a response to his circumstances: but only by providing him with the vital means to escape from them into his own mind – an extraordinary achievement." -- Thomas Nagel - New Statesman
"Merely by reminding us that, for all his saintliness, Wittgenstein was human, all too human, these beautiful Notebooks bring him that bit closer to us." -- Christopher Bray - The Tablet

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was a world-renowned Austrian-British philosopher. Born in Vienna, Austria, Marjorie Perloff is the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities at Stanford University, and the author of sixteen books.

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