Ludwig Wittgenstein A Memoir

Name: Ludwig Wittgenstein A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780199247592

ISBN-10: 0199247595

ISBN-13: 9780199247592

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Norman Malcolm, G. H. Von Wright

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Ludwig Wittgenstein remains one of the most powerful influences on contemporary philosophy, yet he shunned publicity and was an extremely private man. His friend Norman Malcolm (himself an eminent philosopher) wrote this remarkably vivid personal memoir of Wittgenstein--first published in 1958 to wide acclaim for its moving and truthful portrait of the gifted yet difficult man. And, although much has been published about Wittgenstein since his death, nothing brings us closer to the philosopher himself than this modest classic. Now in a new edition, it includes the complete text of the fifty-seven letters that Wittgenstein wrote to Malcolm over a period of eleven years, revealing how…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition



A Biographical Sketch



A Memoir



Wittgenstein's Letters to Norman Malcolm


Index