This book contains diary notebooks where every single entry is crucial for understanding the “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”: from amusing addresses to Work and Spirit (“Long live the Spirit!”) and comments like “I still lack a holistic vision” to the agonies of masturbation (imagining a conversation with his brother). Overall, the entries evoke a strange feeling, as if you’ve just interacted with all the patients of a rehabilitation center—not for drug or alcohol addiction, but for addiction to philosophy and the search for truth.

June 2014