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Toulmin Stephen - Wittgenstein's Vienna - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Wittgenstein's Vienna
Author(s): Toulmin Stephen
Publisher: Ivan R Dee Inc
Barcode: 9781566631327
Pages: 315 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/1996
Category: History Of Western Philosophy
Description: 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.
Title: Wittgenstein's Vienna
Author(s): Toulmin Stephen
Publisher: Ivan R Dee Inc
Barcode: 9781566631327
Pages: 315 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/1996
Category: History Of Western Philosophy
