'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out the Wittgensteinian task of "changing the aspect" of Wittgenstein's work, getting us to see it in a new way' Sunday Telegraph'This biography transforms Wittgenstein into a human being' Independent on Sunday...

**An unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America’s most brilliant—and most divisive—scientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center vividly illuminates the man who would go down in history as “the father of the atomic bomb.”“Impressive. . . . An extraordinary story.”—The New York Times Book Review“Judicious, comprehensive and reliable. . . . By far the most thorough survey yet written of Op...

Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that of his peers and makes the question of how to read him particularly pertinent.At the root of Wittgenstein's thought, Ray Monk argues, is a determination to resist the scientism characteristic of our age, a determination to insist o...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.But his was not a simple story of assimilation, scientific success and world fame. A complicated and fragile personality, the implications of the di...

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know'Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: 'as dazzling as first love'. From that moment on, he would pursue his passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematic...

Die beste Wittgenstein-Biographie: überarbeitet und neu aufgelegtAus der minutiösen Recherche, aus vielen Korrespondenzen und Tagebüchern entsteht das Leben des Philosophen, wie man es so nicht kannte – keine Kultfigur, sondern ein Mensch, der sich einer permanenten Selbstprüfung unterwarf. Durch einzigartiges erzählerisches Geschick fesselt Ray Monk von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite. Er schuf damit die beste Wittgenstein- Biographie überhaupt – nun gibt es sie in einer überarbei...

La biografía de Wittgenstein a través de sus archivos personales.La obra de Ludwig Wittgenstein es el producto de un pensamiento riguroso y de una imaginación brillante, y sólo puede ser comprendida en todo su alcance analizando la relación entre su filosofía y su vida. Wittgenstein nació en 1889, hijo de una de las más acaudaladas y cultas familias de Viena, de origen judío pero convertidos al catolicismo, y cuyos miembros eran triunfadores o suicidas; en esta com...

« Dites-leur que j’ai eu une vie merveilleuse. » C’est sur ces mots apaisés que s’éteint le philosophe Ludwig Wittgenstein à Cambridge. La destinée de celui qui fut l’un des penseurs les plus originaux du XXe siècle fut pourtant traversée de doutes et de combats perpétuels. Il naît à Vienne en 1889, dernier des huit enfants d’une famille richissime. Le père, industriel de grande envergure, et la mère, musicienne d’exception, reçoivent chez eux Brahms, Mahler ou Klimt, et dispensent à leurs...

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In ...

Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th century.Ludwig Wittgenstein’s way to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the ground-breaking works in the history of philosophy, can rightly be termed an Odyssey. Both in terms of his movements and his int...

The heartfelt memoir of Ray Raghunath Cappo, a legendary hardcore punk musician-turned-monk—and pioneer of the straight-edge movement—told with warmth, candor, and humor. Narrated by the author himself.Ray Cappo was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City in the ’80s, where his band Youth of Today played to packed clubs and touched thousands of people across the globe. But despite the accolades from fans, the p...

Monk in the Market Place … and the Simpsons is a memoir like no other. Ray Simpson, Founding Guardian of the international new monastic Community of Aidan and Hilda, recalls the story of a unique life in which he has followed faithfully a calling to live monastically beyond the traditional enclosures of monastery or shrine.Ray’s unputdownable account charts human pain and God-incidents in his childhood and college, baptisms of fire in industrial heartlands and multi-racial London, ...