Description: Now available for the first time, the letters between Wittgenstein and Richards provide a wholly new perspective of the life of one of the 20th century's most important thinkers.
Brief description:
Ray Monk is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published award-winning biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell. His most recent book is Inside the Centre: the Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2012, Jonathan Cape).
Review Quotes:
"The letters, dating from 1946 to 1951, give a new perspective on Wittgenstein's feelings, particularly in the years immediately before his death." --Publishers Weekly
"This extraordinary volume of letters offers an intimate portrait of Ludwig Wittgenstein, not as the granite logician of legend, but as a man unguarded, needy, joyful, and often undone by love. . . . A fascinating, at times unsettling archive for readers with a serious interest in Wittgenstein." --Kirkus Reviews "His letters, scrupulously edited by Gabriel Citron and Alfred Schmidt, reveal passionate love, neediness, despair, a rather heavy-handed sense of humour and intermittent contrition for his exorbitant egoism." --Literary Review