Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born into one of the wealthiest families in Austria but gave away his entire inheritance he fought in WW I, was Bertrand Russell's protege and then his master, became a reluctant Cambridge don who exchanged academia for solitude whenever possible and was drawn to younger men with brilliant minds.
In a full-scale biography of him, British philosopher Monk tries to show that this possibly acutest and most influential mind of the century and the obsessional personality were one, driven by spiritual as much as by intellectual concerns.
Wittgenstein the philosopher and Wittgenstein the man have generated two largely separate industries.
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