Though he published only one book in his lifetime, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) was one of the most influential philosophers of his generation.  The youngest son of a wealthy family, never comfortable with the academic environment where his ideas were so prized, his was largely a life of the mind.  By turns eccentric and reclusive, worrying over being misunderstood or being an influence to younger philosophers he disagreed with, he cast a wide shadow.
                                    
                                    
                                      
                                        
                                          
                                             
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