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Author Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951, author.

Title Private notebooks : 1914-1916 / Ludwig Wittgenstein ; edited and translated by Marjorie Perloff.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923, [2022]

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  193 WITTGENSTEIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: Notebooks, 1914-1916. New York, Harper, 1961.
Translation of : Geheime Tagebücher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216).
Summary "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 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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Diaries.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951 -- Correspondence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, Austrian.
Soldiers -- Austria -- Biography.
Austria. Landwehr -- Biography.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. (OCoLC)fst00032844
Austria. Landwehr. (OCoLC)fst00575344
Biography. (OCoLC)fst00832149
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst00892657
Letters. (OCoLC)fst00996779
Soldiers -- Biography. (OCoLC)fst01125243
Austria. (OCoLC)fst01204901
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Genre/Form Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423820
Added Author Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Geheime Tagebücher, 1914-1916.
Perloff, Marjorie, editor, translator.
Added Title Geheime Tagebücher, 1914-1916. English
ISBN 9781324090809
1324090804
9781324090816 (epub)
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