I Declare A Permanent State of Happiness"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 A 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