I read Julian Baggini’s review of the new Ludwig Wittgenstein biography with keen interest (“An Attack on the Abstract,” Bookshelf, Nov. 19). In the late 1970s I was a graduate student in the ...

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A brisk new portrait by Anthony Gottlieb emphasizes the philosopher’s restless, ambivalent mind and Viennese family background. By Nikhil Krishnan Nikhil Krishnan is the author of “A Terribly Serious ...

“The world will never know what has happened—what a light has gone out,” the belletrist Lytton Strachey, a member of London’s Bloomsbury literary set, wrote to a friend on January 19, 1930. Frank ...

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Stithprajna, a state of steady wisdom, is achieved by relinquishing selfish desires and finding contentment within the Self. This individual remains undisturbed by life's dualities, such as happiness ...

Prince August Fredrik zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, known professionally as August Wittgenstein (born 22 January 1981), is a German-Swedish actor and member of the princely House of ...

The son of Oscar Serracino-Inglott and Maria née Calamatta, Peter was born in Valletta and studied at the Lyceum and at the RUM from where he graduated BA (1955). He pursued further studies at Oxford ...

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...