Spring
1916: Ludwig Wittgenstein is on his way to the Eastern Front.
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus, the terse, gnomic masterpiece of modern philosophy,
is also a war poem. At the outbreak of the First World War this strange,
intense, immensely wealthy young man volunteered as a private soldier in an
Austro-Hungarian regiment, serving in some of the most brutal battles of the conflict,
and carrying notes for the Tractatus
in his backpack.
Wherever
We Are When We Come To The End digs into the form and the language of the Tractatus, following Wittgenstein
through the war and his own conflicts with language and silence, violence and
grief, time and eternity. The result is a highly original formal experiment and
a poetic fantasia on logic, love and war.