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Ludwig Wittgenstein: the Duty Of Genius
[Paperback - 1991]
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Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780140159950 | Pages: 704
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"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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Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago in 1931. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John¿s College in Cambridge where he was a major scholar in Classics. He has written nineteen novels. His other works include translations, essays and radio plays. He is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times literary and travel pages. He is married with three children. He divides his time between France and England.

Ray Monk is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius and has also written biographies of Bertrand Russell and J. Robert Oppenheimer. His chief interests now lie in environmental activism and the promotion of veganism.

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