The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by Edmonds, David

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691164908)

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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by Edmonds, David

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

$27.95
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by Edmonds, David

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

$27.95
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelbk, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelbk 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 Schlick--and 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 Gel. 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.

The Murder of Professor Schlick paints an unforgettable portrait of the Vienna Circle and its members while weaving an enthralling narrative set against the backdrop of economic catastrophe and rising extremism in Hitler's Europe.

Author: David Edmonds
ISBN-10: 0691164908
ISBN-13: 9780691164908
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2020
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d
By David Edmonds
By David Edmonds
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David Edmonds is the coauthor, with John Eidinow, of the bestselling Wittgenstein's Poker as well as Rousseau's Dog and Bobby Fischer Goes to War, and the author of Would You Kill the Fat Man? (Princeton). Cofounder, with Nigel Warburton, of the popular Philosophy Bites podcast series, he is a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Twitter @DavidEdmonds100

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