Janik, Allan, author.
Wittgenstein's Vienna revisited / Allan Janik.
New Brunswick, USA : Transaction Publishers, ©2001.
xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
"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 tensions, 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 (coauthored 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."--Jacket.
0765800500
9780765800503
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, (1889-1951)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
Wiener Kreis
Logical positivism History.
Positivisme logique Histoire.
Intellectual life.
Logical positivism.
Aufsatzsammlung
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life 20th century.
Vienne (Autriche) Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Austria Vienna.
Wien
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Location: Library main 216040
Call No.: NA44.W831.9 J3 2001
Status: Available
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