![]() In this paper, one that pays particular attention to Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein, I don't seek to produce or to deploy anything amounting to a fully developed theory of biography, nor of the sub-genre about which I will be talking: the biography of the philosopher. The later Wittgenstein often cautioned, indeed railed, against what he called "the craving for generality" (Monk, Wittgenstein 338)-a craving that in his view resulted in the formulation of theories instead of the requisite precise description of particulars. THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILOSOPHER AS SUB-GENRE Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations IIxi, 223e 78-80 One human being can be a complete enigma to another. ![]() to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. ![]()
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