Peter Salmon was born in Australia but now lives in the UK. His first novel The Coffee Story was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written for the Guardian, the Sydney Review of Books, the New Humanist, as well as Australian TV and radio. He has received the Writer's Awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia.
Salmon's new book is An Event, Perhaps: A Biograph y of Jacques Derrida.
At the Guardian, he tagged ten of the best books about great thinkers, including:
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray MonkRead about the other entries on the list.
For anyone studying philosophy, reading Wittgenstein can feel like taking a draught of cool water. Suddenly the deepest problems seem easy, to be mere problems of language, easy to solve. And then, as you read more deeply, that all falls apart as every problem becomes knottier, every question deeper still. Ray Monk’s biography is the gold standard in the genre, revealing a man whose life was as simple and complicated as his work.
--Marshal Zeringue
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