Wittgenstein

Difficult to know and impossible to forget Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime - a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers. Spanning most of his life from his early encounters with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge to a final trip to New York via the Russian Front <i>Wittgenstein: The Crooked Roads</i> tracks the journeys of a tortured soul.<br/><br/>William Lyons Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Trinity College Dublin has written a moving and philosophically acute journey through successive decades of Wittgenstein's career. The play received its world premiere on 19 April 2011 at the Riverside Studios.