It has just struck me that, although Wittgenstein and Heidegger were alive at the same time and were similarly aged (give or take), I’ve never seen any literature about their views on each other or their relationship to each other.

most thinkers appear to be unsocial hermits. lol

A Beautiful Mind. :)

I will recommend Ray Monks’ biography “Wittgenstein”. Good read and insight.

My two bits! When Wittgenstein’s ideas are translated into untechnical everyday language, his ideas seem to lack profundity. When his ideas are left in his own words, his ideas seem impenetable. But I guess that’s what much of philosophy is all about. :)

Hitler and Wittgenstein were born about a week apart and went to the same Technical School in Linz, although they were in different school years. Also, I recollect a suggestion in a book “Wittgenstein’s Poker” that Wittgenstein may have gone to Germany after acquiring the safety of British citizenship to bribe the safety of his sisters. I am curious to know more because this might help understand Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought better. Just thinking out loud.