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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

by Ray Monk

Published for the first time: 1/1/1990

704 pages, Paperback

Genres: Biography Memoir, Psychology, History, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Philosophy

“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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