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WITTGENSTEIN LUDWIG PRIVATE NOTEBOOKS

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.

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