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Book SynopsisWritten in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation
Trade Review"Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher." -- Anil Gomes - The Guardian
"Perloff has done a great service in bringing this volume to fruition. Her inclusion of remarks from the recto pages is judicious and will engage the non-specialist reader… Her translation here has real presence: emotional ubiety." -- Ian Ground - The Times Literary Supplement
"These notebooks do reveal that in a sense Wittgenstein’s philosophy was a response to his circumstances: but only by providing him with the vital means to escape from them into his own mind – an extraordinary achievement." -- Thomas Nagel - New Statesman
"Merely by reminding us that, for all his saintliness, Wittgenstein was human, all too human, these beautiful
Notebooks bring him that bit closer to us." -- Christopher Bray - The Tablet
