About the book
Written while its author was a soldier in World War I, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only book-length philosophical work Ludwig Wittgenstein published in his lifetime. Its aim is to pin down how language relates to reality and where science stops. With almost no arguments as such, it offers 525 terse statements, numbered in a hierarchy that branches out from seven basic propositions. Topics run from symbolism and how words relate to objects through logical inference and propositions to knowledge, ethics and the mystical. It shaped the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle, though Wittgenstein's later writings attacked many of its ideas. It was first published in German in 1921, and the English edition carried an introduction by Bertrand Russell.
NALU founder Sonia Micu says she has read it many times, finds it beautiful, notes that some call it poetry, and expects to keep returning to it.
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Sonia Micu (Founder/NALU)
The book I read many times already is Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Don’t say it’s pretentious. It is beautiful. Some even say it’s poetry. I am far from understanding his complicated genius, but I think I’ve learned how to read it and I think I’ll never stop going back to it.
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