I Think of You Constantly with Love: The Letters of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards

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Alfred Schmidt Gabriel Citron (Shalem College, Jerusalem)

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The Letters of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards

Alfred Schmidt, Gabriel Citron (Shalem College, Jerusalem), Ray Monk (University of Southampton, UK)

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16 April 2026

Diaries, letters & journals; Philosophy; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; History of ideas

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards met in the autumn of 1945, when Richards – a medical student – was attending one of Wittgenstein’s courses. The ‘loving friendship’ (in Wittgenstein’s words) which subsequently developed between them decisively coloured every aspect of Wittgenstein’s last years.

Their correspondence – consisting of more than 370 letters, cards, and telegrams, along with numerous drawings and attachments – starts in the summer of 1946, and ends in April 1951, just a week before Wittgenstein’s death. It gives an incomparably vivid and touching picture of the last five years of Wittgenstein’s life.

His encounter with Richards was perhaps the deepest love and the greatest happiness of Wittgenstein’s life. And yet these letters also reveal Wittgenstein as a lonely, vulnerable, and often overbearing man, painfully aware of his dependence on the affection of his much younger beloved friend, and painfully aware of the fragility of their connection.

This collection of letters between Wittgenstein and Richards is not only the single largest correspondence of Wittgenstein’s that has survived, but – more importantly – it is by far the most significant and revealing cache of letters between Wittgenstein and someone whom he loved romantically. They offer an entirely new window onto Wittgenstein’s inner life, and a profound and moving testament to his emotional and intellectual concerns in his last years.

Like all of Wittgenstein’s writings, the letters are shot through with opinions, humour, and insights, delivered in Wittgenstein’s typically sharp and powerful manner. In short, this is a most remarkable collection of documents – both for those interested in Wittgenstein’s philosophy, and for those interested in the life of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers.

Foreword by: Ray Monk (University of Southampton UK)
Edited by: Alfred Schmidt, Gabriel Citron (Shalem College, Jerusalem)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 248mm, Width: 176mm, Spine: 42mm
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9781350026469
ISBN 10: 1350026468
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Gabriel Citron is a lecturer in philosophy at Shalem College, Jerusalem. Alfred Schmidt is the Scientific Assistant to the Director-General of the Austrian National Library. Ray Monk is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and biographer of Wittgenstein. He is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1991) and Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2012).

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A fascinating, at times unsettling archive for readers with a serious interest in Wittgenstein. * Kirkus Reviews *

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