{"id":48059,"count":9,"description":"Biography is a good way of learning about philosophy when it\u2019s done well. Some excellent philosophical biographies have come out in the past few years. An exceptional <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/ludwig-wittgenstein-the-duty-of-genius\/\">biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein<\/a>, who had a big influence on 20th-century philosophy, was a landmark. The author, Ray Monk,\u00a0 showed that it was possible to do a highly intelligent, well-researched biography of a difficult thinker that could appeal to a wide audience. Monk was able to put Wittgenstein's philosophy in the context of his life. Published in 1990, it paved the way for a much greater interest in the philosophical biography genre\u2014as opposed to philosophy just being about <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/key-philosophical-texts-western-nigel-warburton\/\">key texts<\/a>.\r\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><\/p>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/philosophy\/philosophical-biographies\/","name":"Philosophical Biographies","slug":"philosophical-biographies","taxonomy":"category","parent":5194,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/48059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5194"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=48059"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=48059"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=48059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}