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Wittgenstein's Vienna

1996 History
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Release : 1996
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Vienna by : Allan Janik

Download or read book Wittgenstein's Vienna written by Allan Janik. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de si cle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is Wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young thinker. With others, including Freud, Viktor Adler, and Arnold Schoenberg, he forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, the book is superbly realized; it is even better as a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. "Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin have acted on a striking premise: an understanding of prewar Vienna, Wittgenstein's native city, will make it easier to comprehend both his work and our own problems....This is an independent work containing much that is challenging, new, and useful."--New York Times Book Review.

WITTGENSTEIN IN VIENNA.

1998-10-06 Architecture
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Release : 1998-10-06
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 772/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis WITTGENSTEIN IN VIENNA. by : Allan S. Janik

Download or read book WITTGENSTEIN IN VIENNA. written by Allan S. Janik. This book was released on 1998-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wittgenstein in Vienna" documents Wittgenstein's life in the city: the places he, his family and those with whom he was in contact, lived, worked, entertained and socialized. The book will be a source of enrichment to the cultural tourist in Vienna. Its authors are authorities on Wittgenstein's philosophy especially in relation to Viennese culture and popular culture, in particular the world of the coffee house and cabaret.

Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited

2018-04-17 Philosophy
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Release : 2018-04-17
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited by : Allan Janik

Download or read book Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited written by Allan Janik. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity. One of the most powerful critiques of the retreat into fantasy was that of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early career in Vienna has helped frame debates about ethical and aesthetic values in culture. In Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein's thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture. Although Wittgenstein is the central figure in this volume, Janik places considerable emphasis on other influential figures, both Viennese and non-Viennese, in order to break down some of the persistent stereotypes about the philosopher and his surrounding culture, especially the myths of "carefree" Vienna and Wittgenstein the positivist. The persistence of these myths, in Janik's view, stems in part from the inability of many historians to differentiate past from present in the evaluation of intellectual currents. Janik reviews a number of figures overlooked in assessing Wittgenstein: Otto Weininger, Kraus, Schoenberg, Nietzsche, Wagner, Ibsen, Offenbach, and Georg Trakl. All of these, Janik demonstrates, are absolutely necessary to understand what was at stake in the debates on aestheticism and the critique of a modern culture. Wittgenstein's efforts to recognize the limits of thought and language and thus to be fair to science, religion, and art account for his place of honor among critical modernists. These essays elucidate Wittgenstein's perspective on our culture.

The Voices of Wittgenstein

2003-10-04 Philosophy
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Release : 2003-10-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Voices of Wittgenstein by : Friedrich Waismann

Download or read book The Voices of Wittgenstein written by Friedrich Waismann. This book was released on 2003-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brings for the first time over one hundred short essays in philosophical logic and the philosophy of mind. It is an invaluable introduction to Wittgenstein's 'later philosophy'.

Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle

1983 Philosophy
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Release : 1983
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle by : Ludwig Wittgenstein

Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle written by Ludwig Wittgenstein. This book was released on 1983. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the most important of his Cambridge friends and includes editorial notes based on archival material not previously explored. Incorporates many previously undiscovered unique and significant letters. A powerful record and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought. Extensive editorial annotations.

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