Title: long and tired
Review: Wittgenstein's Poker was delightful. This is not. It's filled with detail that is not compelling nor germaine to the issue at hand. It may be the issue at hand is really not that interesting. Hence the need to pad it with redundant details.The best thing that could have happened to this book is a good edit. It's worth about half to two thirds the pages used to present a relatively simple tale of two radically dissimilar spirits and intellects. Perhaps if it had focused on these elements in more depth it may have produced the substance the authors try to conjure. As it is there really isn't the stuff of drama and the information packed into the book is only mildly interesting. It reads much more like gossip than their previous effort. Though such were the times.I like the premise these authors have set out. There IS real drama within the history of philosophy and the debates that philosophy has engendered. There may be here. I'm not sure. But I wasn't convinced by this read.
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