More profound than either his book The Modist or his other published notebook the Ninesquare, this work of philosophy was recovered after being lost along the highway in middle America. However, the story of its recovery remains a subject of mystery. So far as most authorities will admit, The Golden Notebook is merely an artistic interpretation of Lichtenberg's Notebook J. The importance of either The Golden Notebook in its current edition, or Notebook J in Hollingdale's original translation is enormous. But here we find traces of a great intellect suspiciously familiar with every nuance of Lichtenberg. It is as if Lichtenberg didn't exist in the first place. And we find, in his place, a clear, colorful intelligence capable of making stupendous leaps of the imagination, beyond all prior definitions of the term. This Notebook is the ultimate philosophical notebook, a work that dares to say everything important in philosophy, and damned near gets away with it. As the saying goes, past this point, if you want to do something original, cite some sources. In The Golden Notebook, we find evidence of the most original intelligence. This edition includes additional content in the form of interpretations of the many 'golden' thoughts of Novalis, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Picabia, and now with updated sections on Nathan Coppedge, Protagoras, and the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, as well as a short sections devoted to Karl Popper, Epictetus, and many others. This edition has also been updated to include writings on The Intellectual and The Demoniac as well as a version of the venerable Chinese teaching, the Mandate of Heaven. All of the content is golden. It is now officially a 'multi-translation'.
Nathan Coppedge is a philosopher, artist, inventor, and poet in some capacity. He is a member of the International Honor Society for Philosophy, and has been quoted on Book Forum and the Hartford Courant. A comment at The Economist cites his possible influence on the economic policy of India. For his work on perpetual motion machines, one website puts him in the ranks of Einstein and Newton. He is also an artist in Hyper-Cubism who has produced over 1000 works. His academic articles span such subjects as objective knowledge, metaphysics, psychology, and immortality. He lives alone in New Haven, CT.
