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Murder of Professor Schlick, The: The rise & fall of the Vienna Circle

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Murder of Professor Schlick, The: The rise & fall of the Vienna Circle

SKU: 9780691164908 Category: Product ID: 71675

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Title: Murder of Professor Schlick, The: The rise & fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: EDMONDS DAVID
Illustrator: 23 B/W ILLUS.
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/12/2020
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelbck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelbck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlickand of a philosophical movement that sought to do away with metaphysics and pseudoscience in a city darkened by fascism, anti-Semitism, and unreason.

The Vienna Circle's members included Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and the eccentric logician Kurt Gdel. On its fringes were two other philosophical titans of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. The Circle championed the philosophy of logical empiricism, which held that only two types of propositions have cognitive meaning, those that can be verified through experience and those that are analytically true. For a time, it was the most fashionable movement in philosophy. Yet by the outbreak of World War II, Schlick's group had disbanded and almost all its members had fled. Edmonds reveals why the Austro-fascists and the Nazis saw their philosophy as such a threat.

ISBN: 9780691164908
Dimension: 216mm X 140mm

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Dimensions 216 × 140 mm