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Wittgenstein's Vienna
Allan Janik
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Description for Wittgenstein's Vienna
Paperback. The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. "An independent work..challenging, new, and useful."-New York Times Book Review. Num Pages: 315 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
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 siècle 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 ... Read more
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 siècle 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
434g
Number of Pages
315
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631327
SKU
V9781566631327
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About Allan Janik
Allan Kanik is now at the Research Institute of the Brenner Archives at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Stephen Toulmin teaches philosophy at the University of Southern California.
Reviews for Wittgenstein's Vienna
A brilliantly conceived project admirably brought off.
Peter Caws A striking premise...challenging, new, and useful.
The New York Times
Peter Caws A striking premise...challenging, new, and useful.
The New York Times