Notebooks 1914-1916
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Written on the front lines of World War One, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Notebooks 1914–1916 offer a singular and extraordinary window into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most consequential philosophers at the precise moment he was forging his earliest masterwork. These private journals chronicle Wittgenstein's relentless interrogation of logic, language, and the foundations of meaning, mapping the intellectual terrain that would crystallise into the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The entries move with restless urgency between formal logical notation and deeply personal philosophical confession, presenting a thinker wrestling simultaneously with the nature of propositions and the nature of existence itself. Edited and translated by the celebrated philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe, this edition brings rigorous scholarly authority to texts that are indispensable for any serious student of analytic philosophy. The notebooks illuminate not only the genesis of Wittgenstein's early picture theory of meaning but also the profound ethical and mystical preoccupations that run beneath his austere logical surface. For those who wish to understand how one of philosophy's great revolutions was actually lived and thought, these pages present an encounter that is at once intimate and intellectually electrifying.
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Basil Blackwell Oxford
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
Written on the front lines of World War One, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Notebooks 1914–1916 offer a singular and extraordinary window into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most consequential philosophers at the precise moment he was forging his earliest masterwork. These private journals chronicle Wittgenstein's relentless interrogation of logic, language, and the foundations of meaning, mapping the intellectual terrain that would crystallise into the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The entries move with restless urgency between formal logical notation and deeply personal philosophical confession, presenting a thinker wrestling simultaneously with the nature of propositions and the nature of existence itself. Edited and translated by the celebrated philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe, this edition brings rigorous scholarly authority to texts that are indispensable for any serious student of analytic philosophy. The notebooks illuminate not only the genesis of Wittgenstein's early picture theory of meaning but also the profound ethical and mystical preoccupations that run beneath his austere logical surface. For those who wish to understand how one of philosophy's great revolutions was actually lived and thought, these pages present an encounter that is at once intimate and intellectually electrifying.