Lamed – LINK

Monk, mystic, mechanic

Ludwig Wittgenstein's complicated ties with his Viennese family, the suicides of three of his siblings, his ambivalent attitude toward his Jewish origins and his homosexuality – all are examined in a new exhibition in Berlin in honor of the great 20th century philosopher, who died 60 years ago.

By Avner Shapira

“I do philosophy now like an old woman who is always misplacing something and having to look for it again, now her spectacles, now her keys.”