Born into a wealthy Viennese family, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was the glamour boy of English philosophy in the 20 th century, and in the new millennium his influence continues to ...
Anthony Gottlieb, writing in the magazine this week on Alexander Waugh’s “The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War,” relates an amusing anecdote about the famously ascetic Ludwig: when he was a ...
A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...
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