Ludwig Wittgenstein
a memoir
2nd ed. / with Wittgenstein's letters to Malcolm.
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Author
Contributions
- Wright, G. H. von 1916- - Contributor
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951. - Contributor
Publication
1984 - Oxford University Press, Oxford [Oxfordshire], England
Language
English
Word Count
34,000 words, Guess
Page Count
136 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2839162M
- ISBN-100192830422
- OCLC Control Number10402818
- OCLC Control Numberludwigwittgenste00malcrich
- Library of Congress Control Number84000953
and 2 more
- Goodreads1230055
- LibraryThing235441
Classifications
- DDC192
- LCCB3376.W564 M2 1984
Description
It is widely acknowledged that the most powerful influence upon the contemporary practice of philosophy has been that of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who died at Cambridge in 1951. Wittgenstein avoided publicity; little has hitherto been known of his life and character outside the small circle of his relatives and friends. One of those friends, Professor Norman Malcolm of Cornell University, has now written a remarkably vivid personal memoir of this gifted, difficult man. As a frank portrait of a tormented genius, based on many unpublished letters, it will prove of absorbing interest not only to philosophers and students of philosophy but to all, at whatever remove, who have felt the impact of his thought. The memoir is supplemented by a biographical sketch by another of Wittgenstein's friends, Professor Georg Henrik von Wright of the University of Helsingfors.
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