Word: eidinow
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...Wittgenstein's Poker (Ecco; 340 pages; $24), the British journalists David Edmonds and John Eidinow exhaustively investigate the circumstances surrounding the alleged incident. Popper says Wittgenstein lost his cool; others disagree. But it's not just another senior-common-room spat. For Edmonds and Eidinow the altercation is a jumping-off point: they write around it in vast, widening concentric circles, sketching in its complex social and intellectual context...
Fortunately, Edmonds and Eidinow aren't philosophers themselves, and their account of Wittgenstein's notoriously difficult ideas is admirably clear. During his defense of his doctoral thesis, Wittgenstein famously told his examiners, "Don't worry. I know you'll never understand it." By the end of Wittgenstein's Poker, you'll almost believe you could...
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