Description: Wittgenstein's ViennaAuthor(s): Allan Janik, Stephen Toulmin Format: Paperback Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, United States Imprint: Ivan R Dee, Inc ISBN-13: 9781566631327, 978-1566631327 Synopsis 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 siecle 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.
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Book Title: Wittgenstein's Vienna
Item Height: 220mm
Item Width: 142mm
Author: Stephen Toulmin, Allan Janik
Publication Name: Wittgenstein's Vienna
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Ivan R Dee, INC International Concepts
Subject: History
Publication Year: 1996
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 417g
Number of Pages: 315 Pages
