Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Lolli Editions
Published:14th Apr '22
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, often noted as the most important philosophical work of the 20th century, had a broad goal: to identify the relationship between language and reality, and to define the limits of science. Following on from Wittgenstein 100 years later, Signe Gjessing updates and reimagines the Tractatus, marrying poetry with philosophy to test the boundaries of reality. Stunning, knowing, and revitalising, and glinting with stars, silk, and ecstasy, this is poetry which exacts the logical consequence of philosophy, while locating beauty and significance in the nonsense of the world.
Signe Gjessing's highly original reconfiguration of Wittgenstein's Tractatus unfolds at once logically and lyrically on the trembling cusp where philosophy and poetry intersect. Her witty, haunting propositions shimmer between the profound and the puzzling, and beautifully enact Wallace Stevens's assertion that 'Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation' - Mark Ford; Fuelled both by logic and intuition, luxuriance and clarity, ecstasy and precision, this long poem unfurls, fractal-like, to amass moments of confounding, generative insight and beauty - Ralf Webb; Signe Gjessing is a wild voice in new Danish poetry, always closely connected to the symbolic tradition and cosmos - Naja Marie Aidt
ISBN: 9781919609287
Dimensions: 190mm x 112mm x 4mm
Weight: 90g
41 pages