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Wittgenstein´s Poker
David Edmonds
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Description for Wittgenstein´s Poker
Paperback. On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. This book winds together philosophy, history and biography into a piece of detective work. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations,ports. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers. But what really happened?
Wittgenstein's Poker engagingly winds together philosophy, history and biography into a compelling piece of detective work. It ranges from the place of assimilated Jews in fin-de-siècle Vienna, to what happens to memory under stress, to a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571227358
SKU
V9780571227358
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Ref
99-34
About David Edmonds
David Edmonds is a senior research associate at Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a multi-award winning radio producer for the BBC World Service. He co-founded the popular philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites with Nigel Warburton and has published several titles associated with that podcast, along with his works co-authored with John Eidinow. John Eidinow was a presenter/interviewer ... Read more
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