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“... new edition of Tractatus notebooks, as well as numerous volumes of Wittgenstein’s writings. But Gerd Brand’s The Central Texts of Wittgenstein is a horse of another colour. Brand’s aim is to articulate the ‘inner unity’ of Wittgenstein’s philosophy by assembling themes from Wittgenstein’s ‘total ...”

“... complicated feelings at work here, since the speaker’s (and the poet’s) father, the novelist Gerd Hofmann, the subject and the addressee of a number of these poems, represents just this sort of energy, but in a form which excludes the son, and diminishes him. The father is described as a bear, too huge and too occupied for any niceties or ...”