Book by Allan Janik, Stephen Edelson Toulmin

Wittgenstein's Vienna

History

Allan Janik

Stephen Edelson Toulmin

Europe

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Provides an overview of the social, intellectual, and cultural climate of Hapsburg Vienna during the life of the philosopher, Wittgenstein

Stephen Toulmin

Simon&Schuster

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 siècle 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.

Stephen Edelston Toulmin

Ivan R. Dee

Mit diesem kulturgeschichtlichen Reiseführer können Leser auf den Spuren Wittgensteins die Stadt Wien erkunden. Das Buch gibt interessante und unterhaltsame Einblicke in das Leben und die Arbeit Ludwig Wittgensteins, läßt die Schauplätze seines Lebens lebendig werden und macht die Beziehung zu seiner Familie und zu Freunden transparent. Die Autoren sind nicht nur profunde Kenner der Wittgenstein’schen Philosophie, sondern auch der Wiener Alltags- und Kaffeehauskultur.

Wittgenstein in Wien: Ein biographischer Streifzug durch die Stadt und ihre Geschichte (German Edition)

hans-veigl

Springer

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Allan Janik. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Allan Janik

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Allan Janik. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Wittgenstein's Vienna

Wittgenstein in Wien: Ein biographischer Streifzug durch die Stadt und ihre Geschichte (German Edition)