Ludwig Wittgenstein

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1) Tractatus logico-philosophicus

Author

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Series

Tought

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1999.

Language

English

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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...

2) Private notebooks: 1914-1916

Author

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923

Pub. Date

[2022]

Language

English

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"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...