{"product_id":"private-notebooks-1914-1916-hardcover","title":"Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLudwig Wittgenstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Perloff\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring 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 \u003cem\u003eTractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, \u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003een-face\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a vivid and moving account of the journey of a soul in a dark time, a time in which Wittgenstein was also testing out the limits of what could be said about our place in the world. Marjorie Perloff has done us a great service in making this text available.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Colm Tóibín, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Master\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marjorie Perloff brings a poet's rather than a scholar's sensibility to her translation. . . . Here we see the man between the lines of the Tractatus, agonizing over personal and logical difficulties at the same time. Perloff's edition will be accessible to amateur fans of Wittgenstein and his work, as well as useful to students and scholars.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--James C. Klagge, author of \u003cem\u003eTractatus in Context\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Long neglected, this remarkable work has at long last reached the English-speaking public in a translation . . . by the doyenne of American modern poetry criticism, Marjorie Perloff, in a labor of love that unites sensitivity to aesthetic and cultural values with philosophical depth. It is essential reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Allan Janik, philosopher and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eWittgenstein's Vienna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marjorie Perloff has offered us a window through which we might see the enigmatic Wittgenstein with justified compassion and empathy. This is a marvelous translation that truly adds to our knowledge of a much studied and phenomenally influential thinker.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Percival Everett, author of \u003cem\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 9.33 x 6.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767429333280,"sku":"9781324090809","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e209a880c9e79a00f2e4d90f646d6d58.webp?v=1780310702","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/private-notebooks-1914-1916-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}