{"product_id":"wittgensteins-poker-david-edmonds-9780060936648","title":"Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, \u003cem\u003eWittgenstein's Poker\u003c\/em\u003e explores, through the Popper\/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-si cle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Edmonds, John Eidinow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0060936649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060936648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ecco Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.30h x 5.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/22\/2002 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2002 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooksense '76 Nov\/Dec 2002\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2002 pg. 1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Edmonds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44228047536383,"sku":"9780060936648","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b613cfb-fdfa-4f3b-9154-00268027f6ef.jpg?v=1692811712","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wittgensteins-poker-david-edmonds-9780060936648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}