Ray Monk on Biography & Wittgenstein: Life Without Theory

Recording of Prof. Ray Monk’s lecture, “Life Without Theory,“ delivered on Nov. 20, 2007 at the Philosophy Department at the University of Bergen. From the introduction to his article on biography: “This article discusses recent attempts to provide the genre of biography with a philosophical, theoretical foundation and attempts to show that such efforts are fundamentally misguided. Biography is, I argue, a profoundly nontheoretical activity, and this, precisely, makes it philosophically interesting. Inst