I Declare A Permanent State of Happiness, Second Edition - 9781912475186

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I Declare A Permanent State of Happiness, Second EditionAuthor(s): Kenneth Goldsmith\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: ERIS, United Kingdom\nImprint: ERIS\nISBN-13: 9781912475186, 978-1912475186\nSynopsis\n\""My entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein's later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tractatus. But I always loved the idea of it; I am a conceptual writer, after all.\""-- Kenneth Goldsmith\n\nA major philosophical work, one of the most important written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein's attempt to conquer reality through logic. Written as a series of precisely numbered propositions, it elucidates the relationship of language to logic and to reality, ending with an infamous statement of breathtaking clarity: \""What can be said at all, can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over to silence\"".\n\nOriginally conceived as part of ERIS's Marginalia series .