![]() ![]() The later Wittgenstein, on the contrary, seems to have grown tired of serious thinking and. ![]() ![]() With access to Wittgenstein's papers, as well as to his friends, Monk has done an excellent job of elucidating the twin journeys of an extraordinary mind and soul, though it's not likely his insights into Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations will tempt many to do more than dip their feet in those decidedly choppy waters. The earlier Wittgenstein, whom I knew intimately, was a man addicted to passionately intense thinking, profoundly aware of difficult problems of which I, like him, felt the importance, and possessed (or at least so I thought) of true philosophical genius. Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born into one of the wealthiest families in Austria but gave away his entire inheritance he fought in WW I, was Bertrand Russell's protege and then his master, became a reluctant Cambridge don who exchanged academia for solitude whenever possible and was drawn to younger men with brilliant minds. In a full-scale biography of him, British philosopher Monk tries to show that this possibly acutest and most influential mind of the century and the obsessional personality were one, driven by spiritual as much as by intellectual concerns. Moores report was masterfully succinct: I consider that this is a work of genius but, even if it is not, it is well above. Wittgenstein the philosopher and Wittgenstein the man have generated two largely separate industries. Genius Annotation 1 contributor Some Remarks on Logical Form ( Bemerkungen über logische Form in the original German), from 1929, was the only academic paper Wittgenstein published in his. ![]()
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