Wittgenstein's Secret Diaries: Semiotic Writing in Cryptography

Ludwig Wittgenstein's works encompass a huge number of published philosophical manuscripts, notebooks, lectures, remarks, and responses, as well as his unpublished private diaries. The diaries were written mainly in coded script to interpolate his writings on the philosophy of language with autobiographic passages, but were previously unknown to the public and impossible to decode without learning the coding system.

This book deciphers the cryptography of the diary entries to examine what W...