Notebooks, 1914-1916
| Author | : Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 1984-01-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0226904474 |
English and German. Includes index.
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
| Author | : Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-04-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1324090804 |
Literary Hub • Most Anticipated Books of 2022 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.
Wittgenstein, a Life
| Author | : Brian McGuinness |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780520064966 |
Wittgenstein's Ladder
| Author | : Marjorie Perloff |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 316 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780226660608 |
Austere and uncompromising, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had no use for the avant-garde art works of his own time. He refused to formulate an aesthetic, declaring that one can no more define the "beautiful" than determine "what sort of coffee tastes good". And yet many of the writers of our time have understood, as academic theorists generally have not, that Wittgenstein is "their" philosopher. How do we resolve this paradox? Marjorie Perloff, our foremost critic of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein has provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Wittgenstein's ladder is an apt figure for this radical aesthetic, and not just in its ordinariness as an object. The movement "up" this ladder can never be more than what Wittgenstein's contemporary, Gertrude Stein, called "Beginning again and again". Wittgenstein shows us, too, that we cannot climb the same ladder twice: the use of language, the context in which words and sentences appear, defines their meaning, which changes with every repetition. Wittgenstein's aesthetic brooks no theory, no essentialism, no metalanguage - only a practice, a mode of operation, fragmentary and elliptical.
Philosophical Remarks
| Author | : Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 1980-10-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0226904318 |
When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: "The theories contained in this new work . . . are novel, very original and indubitably important. Whether they are true, I do not know. As a logician who likes simplicity, I should like to think that they are not, but from what I have read of them I am quite sure that he ought to have an opportunity to work them out, since, when completed, they may easily prove to constitute a whole new philosophy." "[Philosophical Remarks] contains the seeds of Wittgenstein's later philosophy of mind and of mathematics. Principally, he here discusses the role of indispensable in language, criticizing Russell's The Analysis of Mind. He modifies the Tractatus's picture theory of meaning by stressing that the connection between the proposition and reality is not found in the picture itself. He analyzes generality in and out of mathematics, and the notions of proof and experiment. He formulates a pain/private-language argument and discusses both behaviorism and the verifiability principle. The work is difficult but important, and it belongs in every philosophy collection."—Robert Hoffman, Philosophy "Any serious student of Wittgenstein's work will want to study his Philosophical Remarks as a transitional book between his two great masterpieces. The Remarks is thus indispensible for anyone who seeks a complete understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy."—Leonard Linsky, American Philosophical Association
Private Notebooks
| Author | : Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2025-01-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781324096290 |
New Yorker - Best Books of 2022 Literary Hub - Most Anticipated Books of 2022 Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein's searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation.
Culture and Value
| Author | : Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
Wittgenstein's notebooks included reflections on all kinds of topics alongside the more strictly philosophical work - on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.Culture and Value is a selection from these reflections. The new edition contains supplementary material which enhances the intelligibility of some of the entries in the original edition. It also includes all the variant versions to be found in the original manuscript sources (which are now given in detail). The original English translation has been extensively revised to suit the different editorial principles on which the revised edition has been produced.
Wittgenstein in Cambridge
| Author | : Brian McGuinness |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2012-04-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1444350897 |
This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge contemporaries Russell, Keynes, Moore, and Ramsey (and previously published as Cambridge Letters). Now expanded to include 200 previously unpublished letters and documents, including correspondence between Wittgenstein and the economist Piero Sraffa, and between Wittgenstein and his pupils Includes extensive editorial annotations Provides a fascinating and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought
The House of Wittgenstein
| Author | : Alexander Waugh |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2009-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0747596735 |
The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic family.
Poilu
| Author | : Louis Barthas |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 729 |
| Release | : 2014-03-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 030020695X |
“An exceptionally vivid memoir of a French soldier’s experience of the First World War.”—Max Hastings, New York Times bestselling author Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. First published in France in 1978, this excellent new translation brings Barthas’ wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks and letters represent the quintessential memoir of a “poilu,” or “hairy one,” as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas’ return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles and endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence and tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus and their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness and keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. “This is clearly one of the most readable and indispensable accounts of the death of the glory of war.”—The Daily Beast (“Hot Reads”)
