Tractatus philosophico-poeticus

Ludwig Wittgenstein's early work /i>Tractatus logico-philosophicus, which was decisive for 20th century philosophy, set an ambitious goal.The early work /i>Tractatus logico-philosophicus from 1922, which was decisive for 20th century philosophy, set itself an ambitious goal: to define the relationship between language and reality and to determine the limits of knowledge - everything "that lies beyond the limit", he wrote, "will simply be nonsense". One hundred years later, the Danish poet Signe Gjessing takes on the poetic potential of this text and its formal rigour, recognising that if the world is ascribed the meaning of "all that is", it requires this very beyond, transcendence and transgression, to do justice to reality. Astoundingly clever and humorous, sparking with stars, silk and ecstasy, Gjessing thus arrives at a poetry that demands the logical consistency of philosophy while finding beauty and meaning in the nonsense of the world.