Ludwig Wittgenstein

"This book displays an inheritance from Wittgenstein's philosophy and life that is different than many other interpretations. Hollingworth has chosen to write the text in a way that is inherently self-conscious, and one can see how this style of writing could emerge from studies of Wittgenstein's own self-criticism and forms of writing. It is good to be reminded that there are many possible ways in which a philosopher's life and work may be received." -- Thomas D. Carroll, Reading Religion "Summing up: Recommended" -- CHOICE "If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.' This is a book that is informed by Wittgenstein's profoundly mystical and pioneering sensibility. Eccentric, eclectic, elegant, esoteric and erudite it cracks open conventional ways of approaching philosophy and biography and is all the better for it. I was intrigued, moved, dazzled and confounded. Certainly the best non-fiction book I read in 2018." -- Salley Vickers, author of Miss Garnet's Angel "Hollingworth swivels often and so gracefully from his subject to our subjectivity that you'll come quickly to see how much fun humanistic learning can be. He brings you originality, surprise, provocation, and a Wittgenstein you'll not be expecting and will not soon be forgetting."--Peter Iver Kaufman, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies, University of Richmond "In short, this book is a tour de force it's all here: philosophy, mathematics, aesthetics, psychology, literature, words, love, sex, God, silence. Reading Ludwig Wittgenstein is like waking up from a dream and knowing you will never see the world in the same way again."--Todd Breyfogle, Director of Seminars for the Aspen Institute "This is a staggeringly original book, huge in ambition and achievement alike."--Rowan Williams "As quixotic as it sounds, this biography battles against the deadening effect of biographies, it drags the hidden biographer â the disengaged biographer being a pose, an act â into the light." -- Nick Mattiske , Insights Magazine