His father, Karl, a friend of Johannes Brahms, was the most acute industrialist in the Austrian steel industry he made the family the Austrian equivalent of the Carnegies or Rothschilds. Wittgenstein's great-grandfather was a land agent named Moses Maier, who in 1808 took the name of his princely employers, the Wittgensteins. And the story is well told the narrative is vivid, clear, sympathetic and credible. It is not a book to which one would turn to learn about Wittgenstein's thought, but enough is said about the philosophical writings to make intelligible the story of the philosopher's life. Ray Monk's "Ludwig Wittgenstein" is the first substantial biography of his whole life. Many books have been written about his philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein was the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.
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