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	Amazon.com: Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius: Books: Ray Monk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monk has done a great deal of research; what emerges is a portrait of a troubled, restless, creative mind, one destined, it seems, to be forever dissatisfied.
		Ray Monk is professor of philosophy at the University of Southampton in England.
		Monk describes Wittgenstein's life, and one may see how his life and philosophy are connected - for instance how the last part of Tractatus may be understood in light of the fact that Wittgenstein devloped a religious attitude to life and read Tolstoy intensively during the first world war.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140159959?v=glance (2213 words)

	Russell Biography
		Monk writes well; his comments, observations and interpretations show discernment and intelligence; his research is thorough.
		In contra-distinction to previous biographies of Russell, Monk attempts to convey the spirit, and even something of the substance of Russell's technically daunting philosophical work, while not neglecting to render a comprehensive, (and engrossing), portrait of one of the most fascinating personalities of the 20th century.
		Ray Monk, in the opinion of this reviewer, falls into this error in issuing a blanket condemnation of the political activism of Russell's final decades.
	www.fermentmagazine.org /essays/russell1.html (3911 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monk's talents as a writer and his knowledge of philosophy produce clear and lucid prose that is sophisticated in its understanding, yet doesn't shy away from the dishy details that make the book compelling.
		Ray Monk is particularly adept at explicating Russell's philosophy: his desire to bring an end to interminable philosophical debates by developing new techniques for the logical analysis of philosophical problems.
		Monk is a thorough biographer, but not an adoring one.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684828022 (1070 words)

	HE DIDN'T ADD UP.('Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-70')(Review) - Commonweal - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The publication of the Monk biography is an occasion for evaluating Russell as philosopher and public figure.
		Monk speculates that in his latter-day dealings with Khrushchev and a raft of world leaders, Bertie fancied himself as prime minister without portfolio.
		Monk notes that in the last decade of his life a phrase that occurs repeatedly in interviews and articles by the great man is, "It is quite simple." For example, when asked why he had abandoned the Labour Party: "Oh, because they are a gang of murderers.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:79305232&refid=holomed_1 (1797 words)

	Books \| Mad math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ray Monk and the ghosts of Bertrand Russell
		Monk, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Southampton, has devoted almost a decade to his subject.
		The madness that clung to Russell’s family heritage like (as Monk puts it, quoting from Ibsen) “a ghost in the cargo” taints both volumes from start to end; it frightened his soul and left him on the margins of homicidal mania.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/01682761.htm (648 words)

	The Hindu : Literary Review / Book Review : Monk's Russell
		It is universally acknowledged that the work he did in the first two decades of the 20th Century in the fields of mathematics and philosophy are a permanent and important contribution in those areas.
		As Monk confesses in the preface to the second volume, "In writing this book I have had to confront, in a way that is new to me, my own reactions to the subject.
		Monk contrives to blame his early behaviourist theories of education for his children's later problems.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2004/12/05/stories/2004120500350500.htm (1668 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Bertrand Russell 1921-70 by Ray Monk
		Monk's method is to gather vignettes of Russell from the writings of contemporaries who disliked him, so that we see him as vain, unfeeling and glib, cracking his acid witticisms at dinner parties and discoursing on the state of the world while neglecting his own offspring.
		Like Monk himself, the unimpeachably earnest Beatrice Webb thought that Russell was wasting his great powers by writing popular literature, although she did not explain how Russell was to have earned a living from logical treatises.
		Monk reserves most of his ire for what he sees as Russell's disastrous effect on his family, and it is here he does him deepest injustice.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,388885,00.html (1084 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, the Ghost of Madness: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monk's other 2 main works deserve 5 stars, this one one less cause he lost any semblance of an "objective" biographer's stance (I know I know "objectivity" is problematic...), starting with the preface and acknowledgements.
		Ray Monk, although he puts Russell's mathematical achievements at the pinnacle of human endeavour, finds everything else about Russell to be pathetic and disgusting.
		Instead of finding this tragic early influence a basis for sympathy and understanding, Monk uses it as a basis for finding a river of underlying insanity and evil flowing beneath the actions and writings of what he considers to be a monster who should not have lived past the completion of his mathematical masterpiece.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743212150 (990 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius
		Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein is both very detailed and very revealing.
		Ray Monk gives us also a clear picture of Wittgenstein's complex and difficult character: his egotism, extreme possessiveness of his friends, fear of becoming loveless, difficulty to communicate, irascibility, mental instability ('see the madman in yourself'), his ambivalence about sexuality (a continuous battle between shame, sex and love) and his culpability.
		All of these things are wonderfully described in the biography, but Monk has managed to convey something about the man that is hard to define, and that was his magnetic personality.
	www.iyares.com /amazon/details.aspx?id=0140159959 (972 words)

	Ry Monk: Bertrand Russell
		Monk provides numerous extracts from their correspondence, from which it is clear that he was always more in love with her than she with him.
		As a stylist, Monk cannot compete with his subject; Russell was one of the best writers of English prose of modern times, making hard ideas seem easy and continually enlivening the most abstruse philosophical discussions with sparks of wit, whereas Monk's writing seems to me rather heavy and pedestrian.
		Monk was fortunate in having an enormous volume of letters and other material on which to draw for this study.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/monk-1.html (1075 words)

	Monk, Meredith Jane on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		MONK, MEREDITH JANE [Monk, Meredith Jane] 1942-, American dancer, choreographer, composer, and filmmaker, b.
		Monk is best known for innovative ensemble performance pieces.
		Genius and the dutiful life: Ray Monk's Wittgenstein and the biography of the philosopher as sub-genre.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/monkm1er.asp (274 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00053556 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monk quotes Russell's telegrams to Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, an influence that Russell and his followers believed tipped the balance toward peace.
		Monk's focus, however, is on the tragedy of Russell's personal life, and in revealing this inner drama Monk has relied heavily on the cooperation of Russell's surviving relatives and access to previously unexamined legal and private correspondence.
		Together with Ray Monk's highly praised first volume of the biography, The Spirit of Solitude, this is the classic account of an extraordinary man who championed the great ideas of the twentieth century and was all but destroyed by them.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon033/00053556.html (519 words)

	LRB \| Adam Phillips : Dealing with Disappointment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the introduction to the first volume of his biography of Russell, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Ray Monk was clear, as his title indicated, about the story he had to tell, though also daunted by the amount of material he had to work with.
		It was, of course, a long life, but even so, as Monk noted, 'the quantity of writing that Russell produced in his lifetime almost defies belief.' Russell may have experienced himself as a ghost: but he was an unusually articulate one.
		Monk was even more struck by what he called, in a characteristically prudent phrase, Russell's 'detailed self-absorption'.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n05/phil01_.html (438 words)

	"Monk" Mr. Monk and the Candidate: Part 1 (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trivia: Monk's irrational fears in order of severity from most to least are as follows: germs, needles, milk, death, snakes, mushrooms, heights, crowds, elevators.
		I LOVE Monk, and this new series underscores how what may seem a "disability" can really be a whole new, wider way of looking at the world.
		His empathy with the character is profound, and rather than some quirky stereotype, his Monk is a beautiful, poetic character that will live for a longtime after the petty series characters of modern "hit" television fade away.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0308593 (335 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Ludwig Wittgenstein, by Ray Monk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		...In Monk's view this was appropriate, in the sense that Wittgenstein had led a devoutly "religious" life...
		...In this light, Wittgenstein's remark of 1942, quoted by Monk, that his own religion was not "Greek" but "100-percent Hebraic," takes on a significance which Monk seems to miss...
		...What is quite clear is that Ray Monk has provided us with a compelling and fascinating picture of not only a great philosopher, but a remarkable human being...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V91I3P59-1.htm (1163 words)

	Swans Commentary: Philosopher, Heal Thyself, by Charles Marowitz - cmarow04
		Monk aptly remarks: "Thus, was John's 'irrational' fear of the sea replaced by an entirely rational fear of his parents." John, who succeeded his father as the 4th Earl Russell was mentally disturbed throughout his life.
		Granddaughter Lucy Russell, who, through much of her life was desperately seeking love and approval from her grandfather, became schizophrenic and in 1975 poured paraffin over herself in a Penzance churchyard and set herself alight.
		Monk's biography -- lucid, painstaking, thorough and whizzingly readable -- is a devastating deracination of the Russell myth.
	www.swans.com /library/art11/cmarow04.html (1589 words)

	What I'd say! Oscar for Foxx
		"Ray said, 'How about this?' And then he went into Thelonius Monk, which is like the equivalent to riding a mechanical bull if you've had something to drink.
		"Ray Charles was the first one to stick his hand out and try to stop that racial domino -- the ignorant domino, that 'I'm better than you' domino.
		Ray said, 'I don't care if it's a white's only bathroom or a colored's only bathroom.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/sho-sunday-foxx24.html (1791 words)

	Book Talk - 1/12/01: Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness...
		At the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, biographer Ray Monk on volume two of his life of the great philosopher.
		Volume one of Monk's biography, dealing with this period, is called Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude.
		Yet Ray Monk writes of his growing realisation of the tragedy of Russell's life, as became clear when he spoke at Cheltenham.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/booktalk/stories/s429572.htm (131 words)

	Frierson - Monk exchange wedding vows April 9 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mobile
		Elizabeth Monk of Dothan and John Richard Frierson of Mobile were united in marriage on Saturday, April 9, 2005 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mobile.
		Arrangements of white lilies, roses, snapdragons and peonies were hung from the carriage lights at the entrance of the church and flanked the altar and were in the narthex.
		Given in marriage by her father, Robert Layle Monk, the bride wore a strapless silk gown with a bodice accented with crystals and pearls.
	www.southalabamian.com /news/2005/0505/People/069.html (711 words)

	Book Talk - 10/8/2002: A Philosophical Life...
		A philosophical life: the biographer of Ludwig Wittgenstein and of Bertrand Russell, the philosopher Ray Monk, on the relationship between Wittgenstein's
		Ray Monk, Professor of Philosophy at Southampton University in England,
		An understanding of Wittgenstein's philosophy, Ray Monk argues, requires an understanding of his inner life.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/booktalk/stories/s642137.htm (110 words)

	Week 1 Questions
		For instance, when Monk first hears of the "most heinous and detestable crimes" (178) performed by the church, she wishes to defy them all and leave right then, but is convinced that she is wrong (179).
		This is shown in her name, for when she entered the convent, she refused to take a "new name" and "kept her own" (footnote: 179).
		First of all, Monk obviously wanted readers to believe her tale, and she might have gone into such detail about the innards of the convent to reinforce her authority on the subject.
	www.indiana.edu /~bestsell/thoughtful.html (3395 words)

	Cambridge Minds - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University of Cambridge over the past 150 years.
		It explains, in simple terms, what has been done in a wide variety of fields including philosophy (Ray Monk on Russell, Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein, Robert Grant on Oakeshott); economics (Geoffrey Harcourt on Keynes); anthropology (Ernest Gellner on Frazer); the study of English (Stephen Heath on Richards and Leavis).
		Ray Monk, Stephen Heath, Gillian Sutherland, Antony Hewish, Colin Renfrew, Geoffrey Harcourt, Jeremy Gray, Paul McHigh, Richard Keynes, Simon Conway Morris, P. Hacker, Jeffrey Hughes, Mark Goldie, M. Perutz, Ernest Gellner, Robert Grant.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521456258 (404 words)

	Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		His life seems to have been dominated by an obsession with moral and philosophical perfection, summed up in the subtitle of Ray Monk's excellent biography Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.
		His concern with moral perfection led Wittgenstein at one point to insist on confessing to several people various sins, including that of allowing others to underestimate the extent of his 'Jewishness'.
		Ray Monk Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (Jonathan Cape, London 1990), which is full of enlightening detail.
	www.iep.utm.edu /w/wittgens.htm (6909 words)

	The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly - May 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Justin takes exception to Ray Monk’s characterizations of these two outsized individuals in Monk’s Russell and Wittgenstein biographies, and argues for his own, different view of their personalities.
		Ray Perkins has written an introduction to the letter that sheds further light onto Russell’s thinking on the issue.
		Monk’s Russell biography is the two volume The Spirit of Solitude: 1872-1921 (1996) and The Ghost of Madness: 1921-1970 (2000); his Wittgenstein biography is the 1990 The Duty of Genius.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /deanhum/philosophy/BRSQ/04may.in_this_issue.htm (441 words)

	Granta: How to Read Wittgenstein
		The kind of understanding we seek in philosophy, Wittgenstein tried to make clear, is similar to the kind we might seek of a person, a piece of music, or, indeed, of a poem.
		Monk is engrossing and revealing in constructing a complete picture of the reclusive Austrian...
		Monk brilliantly melds Wittgenstein's life with his work...
	www.granta.com /shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=2240 (154 words)

	Pojo's Magic The Gathering Card of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Glacial Ray is the hands down best common red card in Champions of Kamigawa for limited play, and one of the best cards in the set altogether.
		This factor allows Glacial Ray to be easily spliced onto all kinds of Arcane spells, allowing you to essentially turning your Glaicial Ray into a reusable damage machine for destroying creatures or finishing off your opponent.
		This card has not made the jump to contructed yet, because the jury is still out on whether or not there are enough good Arcane spells for use in constructed.
	www.pojo.com /magic/cotd/Oct2004/27.html (554 words)

	Review - T.S. Monk: Higher Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's been four years since T.S. Monk's last release, but the time hasn't been wasted.
		Ray Bryant's "Cubano Chant" is another favorite, and Miles Griffith's guest vocal on Cedar Walton's "Mosaic" is nothing short of astonishing.
		From the Latin tinge of the Bryant number to the French Quarter feel of T.S. Monk pianist Ray Gallon's "Craw Daddy," this is a musical trip across borders and into the kind of just around the corner places you'll never find without a capable guide.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-september03/reviews/review_ts_monk.html (224 words)

	Books: 'Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970', by Ray Monk - 2 June 2001
		In 1961, the 89-year-old Bertrand Russell assured humanity that JFK, Khrushchev and Harold Macmillan had become, through their respective nations' nuclear arsenals, "the wickedest people in the history of man".
		Readers of Ray Monk's new volume, the second panel in his biographical diptych (1996's The Spirit of Solitude is the first), might well find themselves allotting a similarly depraved status to Russell himself.
		They will also sympathise with Dr Monk, who spent no less than a decade on the scholarly labour needed for his task, and whose earlier publications (including the definitive biography of Russell's friend-turned-foe Wittgenstein) surely accustomed him to a scholastic rigour in his subjects that nothing in Russell's later career displayed.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001jun02_books1.html (906 words)

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