Monk's book on Wittgenstein was real good....

[Prashant Kumar]

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Book Description
Release Date: May 14, 2013
*Revered biographer Ray Monk solves the enigma of Robert Oppenheimer's life
and personality and brilliantly illuminates his contribution to the
revolution in twentieth-century physics.*

In *Robert Oppenheimer*, Ray Monk delves into the rich and complex
intellectual life of America's most fascinating and elusive scientist, the
father of the atomic bomb. As a young professor at Berkeley, the wealthy,
cultured Oppenheimer finally came into his own as a physicist and also
began a period of support for Communist activities. At the high point of
his life, he was chosen to lead the Manhattan Project and develop the
deadliest weapon on earth: the atomic bomb. Upon its creation, Oppenheimer
feared he had brought mankind to the precipice of self-annihilation and
refused to help create the far more powerful hydrogen bomb, bringing the
wrath of McCarthyite suspicion upon him. In the course of famously dramatic
public hearings, he was stripped of his security clearance. Drawing on
original research and interviews, Monk traces the wide range of influences
on Oppenheimer's development—his Jewishness, his social isolation at
Harvard, his love of Sanskrit, his radical politics. This definitive
portrait finally solves the enigma of the extraordinary, charming, tortured
man whose beautiful mind fundamentally reshaped the world.


On 3 October 2012 22:49, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I did not know of the How To Read Wittgenstein book. I can presume it is a
> decent primer-plus
> From what he demonstrated in the full biography, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The
> Duty of Genius.
>
> If Oppenheimer is as good, we're gonna get lots of complexity around
> science and the Good, I might think.
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:38 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "How to Read" or "The Duty?"
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> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> *From:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>> *Date:* September 28, 2012, 7:00:04 AM EDT
>> *To:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> *Subject:* *@alex_is_editing, 9/28/12, 6:28 AM*
>>
>> *Alex Bowler (@alex_is_editing <https://twitter.com/alex_is_editing>)*
>> 9/28/12, 6:28 AM<https://twitter.com/alex_is_editing/status/251629413630873600>
>> After 10 years writing, and best part of 2 years editorial
>> back-and-forth, am about to press print on Ray Monk's OPPENHEIMER. Bag of
>> nerves.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>
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