![]() He reminded one student of “the Norse God Baldur, blue-eyed and fair-haired, with a beauty that had nothing sensual about it.” Others were less enthusiastic. He is passionate, tormented, misunderstood, a man so singular that virtually everyone who ever knew him, from Bertrand Russell to the man who delivered peat to his cottage in Ireland, remembered and wrote about him. ![]() He’s the “Mad Genius” as sent by Central (European) Casting, the savior of British philosophy or its trivializer. Since his death in 1951, however, he has emerged as one of the best known and least comprehended contemporary thinkers. It’s hard to imagine a more unwilling celebrity than this profoundly serious man who shunned publicity and devoted his life to the pursuit of clarity. ![]() ![]() The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein may be the most famous obscure intellectual of the century. ![]()
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