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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951, author.

Contributor:

Perloff, Marjorie, editor, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Geheime Tagebücher, 1914-1916. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Diaries.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Correspondence.

Austria. Landwehr--Biography.

Austria.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Austria. Landwehr.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Austrian.

World War, 1914-1918.

Soldiers--Austria--Biography.

Soldiers.

Biography.

Diaries.

Letters.

Soldiers--Biography.

Genre:

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Personal narratives.

Diaries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

Text in both English and German.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Notebook 1

August 9, 1914-October 30, 1914

Editor's Note

German text and English text of Notebook 1

Notebook 2

October 30, 1914-June 22, 1915

German text and English text of Notebook 2

Notebook 3

March 28(?), 1916-January 1, 1917

German text and English text of Notebook 3.

Notes:

Originally published: Notebooks, 1914-1916. New York, Harper, 1961.

Translation of : Geheime Tagebücher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. Geheime Tagebücher, 1914-1916.

ISBN:

9781324090809

1324090804

OCLC:

1252850273