"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one."-The Christian Science Monitor.

Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. He is also the author of Robert Oppenheimer and a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Ray Monk Introduction

I. 1889-1919

1. The Laboratory for Self-destruction

2. Manchester

3. Russell's Protégé

4. Russell's Master

5. Norway

6. Behind the Lines

7. At the Front

II. 1919-1928

8. The Unprintable Truth

9. "An Entirely Rural Affair"

10. Out of the Wilderness

III. 1929-41

11. The Second Coming

12. The "Verificationist Phase"

13. The Fog Clears

14. A New Beginning

15. Francis

16. Language-games: The Blue and Brown Books

17. Joining the Ranks

18. Confessions

19. Finis Austriae

20. The Reluctant Professor

IV. 1941-51

21. War Work

22. Swansea

23. The Darkness of This Time

24. A Change of Aspect

25. Ireland

26. A Citizen of No Community

27. Storeys End

Appendix: Bartley's Wittgenstein and the Coded Remarks

References

Select Bibliography

Index