LEONARD LINSKY

I should have cited in my previous post a lingering image. He always knew me by name, in the classroom or on the street, and along with that he had a pretty accurate idea of my limitations, which is only to say he knew his students individually and one cannot claim the same for many professors on the graduate level. However, he could be absorbed, as writers and all thinkers do, in some tangent of thought, in his case, of course, in the world of analytic philosophy. So one day I was walking...

He once pointed to me in class and asked, "Do you understand what I'm saying?" "Not exactly," I said. And remembering a phrase once uttered by one of my undergraduate philosophy professors I added, "but I have a feeling for it." "Oh, I see," he said, adding: "I hope it feels real good."

I hope his family will see this. Leonard Linsky was an amazing professor. I was in his Wittgenstein reading group as an undergrad. His dedication and passion still inspire me now that I'm a professor myself. He was a gift. May his memory be a blessing.