Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Details
War:
World War I
Perspective:
Researcher
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
Europe
Published Date:
2022
ISBN13:
9781324090809
Summary
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks from 1914 to 1916 offer intimate insights into the philosopher's thinking during World War I, when he served in the Austrian army. These personal writings contain early formulations of ideas that would later appear in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The notebooks blend logical and philosophical reflections with personal struggles, exploring language, logic, ethics, and the mystical. They reveal Wittgenstein's intellectual development during a transformative period, showing how wartime experiences influenced his groundbreaking philosophical work on the limits of language and the nature of reality.
