Whereof one cannot speak
George Steiner, 23 June 1988
Wittgenstein. A Life: Young Ludwig 1889-1921
by Brian McGuinness.
Duckworth, 322 pp., £15.95, May 1988,0 7156 0959 9 Show More
by Brian McGuinness.
Duckworth, 322 pp., £15.95, May 1988,
“... and on formal logic are an encouraging instance. The second possibility was that of an entirely frank biography, of a ‘life of Ludwig von Wittgenstein’ which would deal with the privacies, with the pain, with the cruelties which he himself sought, so fiercely, to guard. Elements of such a treatment, though strident and (inevitably, perhaps) rhetorical ... ”