Wherever We Are When We Come to the End - Brossura

Richard Barnett

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1912436582 ISBN 13: 9781912436583

Casa editrice: Valley Press, 2021

Riassunto

Spring 1916: Ludwig Wittgenstein is on his way to the Eastern Front. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, the terse, gnomic masterpiece of modern philosophy, is also a war poem. At the outbreak of the First World War this strange, intense, immensely wealthy young man volunteered as a private soldier in an Austro Hungarian regiment, serving in some of the most brutal battles of the conflict, and carrying notes for the Tractatus in his backpack.

Wherever We Are When We Come to the End digs into the form and the language of the Tractatus, following Wittgenstein through the war and his own conflicts with words and silence, violence and grief, time and eternity. The result is a highly original formal experiment and a poetic fantasia on logic, love and war.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Richard Barnett is a poet and a historian. Seahouses, his first collection, came out with Valley Press in 2015, and was shortlisted for the Poetry Business Prize. He taught the history of science and medicine at Cambridge, UCL, and Oxford for more than a decade, and his history books include Medical London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and The Sick Rose, an international bestseller.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Valley Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1912436582
• ISBN 13: 9781912436583
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 36
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile