title: Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921
author:  Brian McGuinness 
description: `Review from previous edition His account of the mutual impact of Wittgenstein and his Cambridge friends and mentors, particularly Russell, is uniformly brilliant ... McGuinness's book is indispensable reading.'<br />A. J. Ayer, Sunday Times<br /><br />`Outstanding ... McGuinness's assessment of Wittgenstein's psychological nature semms in many ways profound.''<br />Galen Strawson, Observer<br /><br />`The first life of the philosopher to be worthy of its subject ... It must have been an intensely difficult task, which has been magnificently accomplished.'<br />Michael Dummett, The Tablet<br /><br />`Will obviously become the standard biography in English ... a vivid picture of an extraordinarily interesting human being.'<br />Anthony Storr, The Listener
zlib_text: APPROACHES TO WITTGENSTEIN
  Approaches to Wittgenstein brings together for the first time many of the
  finest papers on Ludwig Wittgenstein, illuminating his philosophy by
  placing it in its biographical, cultural and historical context. Written by
  Brian McGuinness, well-known for both his biography of Wittgenstein
  and his work on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, these papers represent fifty
  years of work on the most intriguing and fascinating of twentieth-century
  thinkers.
  In the first section of the book, Brian McGuinness explains the close
  connection between Wittgenstein’s life and work. He argues that
  Wittgenstein was deeply affected by his family, by his work as an archi-
  tect, and by his experience of war and the powerlessness of his native
  Austria. The second section deals at length with Wittgenstein’s famous
  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. McGuinness studies the book’s origins and
  the ‘picture’ theory of meaning it presents, before going on to explore
  the central issues of solipsism, my