![]() ![]() Its 650 pages are of course anything but compressed, and allow us to understand how Wittgenstein arrived at his conclusions. ![]() ![]() When he sent the manuscript of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, neither of these considerable intellects could understand it (which didn’t stop Russell from writing a foreword when it was eventually published.) So amateur students of philosophy like your reviewer might be excused for having had only a very imperfect grasp of his ideas, and indeed for having found books about Wittgenstein very hard work – until, that is, the appearance of Ray Monk’s magnificent biography. He would then struggle for ages rearranging the notes, and was never really satisfied that they were ready for publication. He was always unhappy about committing his ideas to paper, and when he did so, he would set them down in a highly compressed form as numbered notes, sometimes in the form of aphorisms. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical writings are very difficult, not only in content but also in presentation. Vintage Paperback edition 1991, 654 pp., £9.99 and Bruce Duffy – The World As I Found It. ![]() Ray Monk – Ludwig Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius. SUBSCRIBE NOW Books Wittgenstein Books Reviewed by Ralph Blumenau. ![]()
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