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FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKS DRAFT BIOGRAPHY OF ...

Every student of the twentieth century has heard both of the great Viennese economist Friedrich
von Hayek and of the equally great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. But what isn't well known
is that the two were distant cousins and that  shortly after Wittgenstein's death in 1951 
Hayek set out to write a biography of his cousin. The project was derailed by Wittgenstein
family members  who felt it was to soon to publish such a work. But Hayek's draft acquired an
underground readership  and Wittgenstein's biographers have used it extensively.Here finally 
is the text of that work itself. Hayek's account has the great merit of being close to its
subject  the draft  moreover sheds light  not only on Wittgenstein but on Hayek as well. Allan
Janik's elegant afterword makes these links clear. Anyone interested in Wittgenstein or  for
that matter  in the thought and culture of the earlier twentieth century  will want to read
Christian Erbacher's excellent edition of Hayek's draft biography. - Marjorie Perloff

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