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A valuable collection of personal and revealing reflections from friends, family and scholars that provide fascinating insights into Wittgenstein and his extraordinary life.

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Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein´s extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein´s character and power of personality more vividly and comprehensively than ever before.
With portraits from more than 50 figures, Portraits of Wittgenstein brings together the personal recollections of philosophers, students, friends and acquaintances, including Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, F. R. Leavis, A. J. Ayer, Karl Popper, Friedrich von Hayek, G. H. von Wright, Freeman Dyson, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley and Mary Warnock. These authors testify to the life-long influence Wittgenstein had on the lives of those he met. Their fascinating memoirs, reflections and commentaries, often at odds with each other, reveal Wittgenstein´s kindness, and how much genuine friendship meant to him, as well as his suffering and despair. They show too how the philosopher´s ruthless honesty and uncompromising integrity often resulted in stern advice and harsh rebukes to friends and foes alike.
Now abridged and available in paperback, this collection of valuable and hard-to-find material is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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[This] is a wonderful project - endlessly fascinating for philosophers, but it will also appeal to anyone with the most casual interest in twentieth-century intellectual history. This is the work everyone who is interested in Wittgenstein the man needs. (Of the hardback edition) Times Literary Supplement

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Flowers III, F.A.
F. A. Flowers III is a retired appellate lawyer. In addition to being the author of several legal publications, he is the Editor of the First Edition of this work, and Co-Editor of the Second Edition, as well as the Editor of Leo Tolstoy´s The Gospel in Brief (1997), a book which had a profound effect on Wittgenstein´s life. He presently lives in Dotham, Alabama.

Ground, Ian
Ian Ground is Vice-President of the British Wittgenstein Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published on topics in the philosophy of Wittgenstein, aesthetics and philosophical issues concerning the understanding of animal minds.

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