Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Ray Monk
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“Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk’s life of Wittgenstein is such a one.”—The Christian Science Monitor.
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