Rob Hoveman
On 16 Oct 2011, at 06:01, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's been some years since I read it, but I don't recall Monk's biography
> delving very deeply into Wittgenstein's thought. Perhaps I should read it
> again. It does contain a great deal of very interesting biographical
> material, some of it obscure, but even the well-known aspects of
> Wittgenstein's life are given a fresh take. For instance, Wittgenstein's
> effect on Russell is the stuff of academic legend, but Monk documents just
> how staggering the effect of Wittgenstein's thought was on Russell. The war
> years are well-covered, too, and the folly of war is rather dramatically
> illustrated by the details of Wittgenstein's service in the trenches. It
> seems something of a miracle that he wasn't killed in the general
> holocaust.
>
> I haven't read this wildly Routledge volume, but for a Marxist perspective,
> this would appear to be a good starting point:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FBFIM4/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0415247756&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1P3NRCB8N0HXZAXGZ7JJ
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:13:35 +0100 (BST) Angelus Novus
>> <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for the strange request, but some of the smartest people I
>>> know hang out on these lists, so:
>>>
>>> can anyone recommend some useful introductory/secondary literature
>>> to the thought of Wittgenstein? (beyond Wikipedia, of course)
>>>
>>>
>>> Is the Ray Monk biography useful in this regard, or is it purely
>>> biographical and not much of an actual introduction in terms of
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>> Plus points of course for anything written from a broadly Marxist
>>> perspective. ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I would endorse Ray Monk's bio of Wittgenstein,
>> unlike his Russell bio, which IMO is not so good because
>> Monk's rather obvious hatred of Russell gets in his way there.
>> And as I recall, Monk does get in Wittgenstein's ideas too.
>> Concerning Wittgenstein's ideas, Anthony Kenny has a good
>> introductory book on Wittgenstein's philosophy, that is simply
>> titled, Wittgenstein, by Penguin Press.
>>
>> David Pears, who was a noted Wittgenstein scholar, wrote
>> a good short intro book on him also simply titled, Wittgenstein.
>> He also wrote more advanced studies of Wittgenstein's work
>> like his, The False Prison: A Study of the Development of
>> Wittgenstein's Philosophy.
>>
>>
>> Jim Farmelant
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