Books by Ray Monk and Complete Book Reviews
Ray Monk, Author Penguin Books $25 (672p) ISBN 978-0-14-015995-0
According to Monk, philosopher and reluctant Cambridge don Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was driven by spiritual as much by intellectual concerns, exchanged academia for solitude whenever possible and was drawn to brilliant younger men. ``Monk has done...
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Ray Monk, Author Free Press $29.95 (654p) ISBN 978-0-02-921670-5
Wittgenstein the philosopher and Wittgenstein the man have generated two largely separate industries. 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...
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Ray Monk, Author Free Press $35 (720p) ISBN 978-0-684-82802-2
At age 30, philosopher and philanderer Russell (1872-1970) wrote, ""Abstract work must be allowed to destroy one's humanity."" His life into his 50th year is the subject of Monk's first volume of a two-part biography. As previous biographers have...
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Ray Monk, Author Free Press $40 (592p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1215-1
Monk offers the second and culminating volume of his biography of the philosopher and controversialist. Russell's original contributions to mathematics and logic by 1914 had established him as a world-class thinker. But the breakup of his first...
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Ray Monk. Doubleday, $37.50 (848 p) ISBN 978-0-385-50407-2
It's difficult to find a more complicated figure in 20th century physics than J. Robert Oppenheimer. While previous biographies have examined Oppenheimer's philosophy and politics, Monk's work stands apart for its attention to his work in physics....
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