Ludwig and Bertie

In last year's Arendt–Heidegger: A Love Story, Douglas Lackey looked at the unlikely romance and long-term friendship shared by philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger and Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt. Now he turns his attention to the long tug-of-war between the Nobel Prize–winning philosopher and humanitarian Bertrand Russell and his rebellious erstwhile student, the postmodernist pathbreaker Ludwig Wittgenstein. Alexander Harrington directs.