Ludwig Wittgenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
xxv, 106 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.
-So it is not a textbook.
-Its purpose would be achieved if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it.
The book deals with the problems of philosophy, and shows, I believe, that the reason why these problems are posed is that the logic of our language is mis-understood. The whole sense...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein's searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars 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 contextualize...
