Murder of Professor Schlick (eBook)

The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

DAVID EDMONDS (Autor)

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2020
336 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18584-2 (ISBN)

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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 historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelbock, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelbock 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 Godel. 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.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 23 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adolf Eichmann • Adolf Hitler • Adolf Loos • Adult Education • A. J. Ayer • Alfred Tarski • American Philosophy • Analytic philosophy • Analytic–synthetic distinction • Anecdote • Anschluss • Anti-Capitalism • Anti-Communism • Apathy • assassination • associate professor • asymmetry • Atheism • auschwitz concentration camp • Austria-Hungary • Austrians • Austromarxism • Berliner Tageblatt • Bertrand Russell • blackmail • Career • Carl Menger • Chief of Police • contempt • Conventionalism • credential • cruelty • czechoslovakia • czechs • Dachau • Dachau Concentration Camp • David Hilbert • David Papineau • death certificate • declaration of war • Defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire • demagogue • Disease • doctorate • Dynamism (metaphysics) • ebb and flow • Edgar Zilsel • Einstein • Empiricism • enemy alien • Erkenntnis • Ernst Mach • Exact Thinking in Demented Times • Explanation • Extremism • Eyewitness Testimony • Falling-out • Felix Kaufmann • Foundations of mathematics • Freud • Friedrich Adler (politician) • Friedrich Hayek • Friedrich Waisman • Friedrich Waismann • G. E. Moore • German National Socialist Workers' Party (Czechoslovakia) • Gestapo • Gilbert Ryle • Gottlob Frege • Gustav Bergmann • Habilitation • Hans Hahn • Hans Reichenbach • harassment • Heimwehr • Helmut Schmidt • Henri Poincaré • Herbert Feigl • history of ideas • HMS Venomous (D75) • hostility • humiliation • Ideology • Incubus • International Encyclopedia of Unified Science • internment • irritation • Italians • Jews • John Maynard Keynes • Josef Schächter • Karl Menger • Karl Popper • karl sigmund • Kristallnacht • Kurt Schuschnigg • Lecture • left-wing politics • Lie • Logic • Logical Positivism • Love–hate relationship • Ludwig von Mises • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Manifesto • Martin Heidegger • Marxism • mathematician • Mathematics • Mein Kampf • Metaphysics • Moritz Schlick • Nazi Party • Nazi Propaganda • Nazism • neopositivism • newspaper • Niels Bohr • Nobel prize • Nuremberg Laws • Olga Hahn-Neurath • Othmar Spann • Otto Bauer • Otto Neurath • Persecution • Personal life • Philipp Frank • Philosopher • Philosophical investigations • Philosophy • philosophy of science • physicist • Pierre Laval • Political Philosophy • Political violence • Politics • Polymath • Positivism • Principia Mathematica • Privatdozent • Probability • Protest • Psychiatrist • Psychoanalysis • Psychopathy • Publication • Red Vienna • Reichsbank • richard von mises • Robert Musil • Rose Rand • Rudolf Carnap • Russell's paradox • Science • scientific theory • Scientist • self-criticism • shaving • Sigmund Freud • skepticism • Sobibór extermination camp • Social Science • Spanish Civil War • Stammtisch • Starvation • Subversion • Susan Stebbing • The Barricades • The Last Lecture • Theory of relativity • The Philosopher • Theresienstadt Concentration Camp • The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science • The Wretched of the Earth • Thought • Tractatus logico-philosophicus • Trade Union • Unity of science • University College London • University of Rostock • University of Vienna • verificationism • Victor Adler • Victor Kraft • Vienna Circle • Violence • Willard Van Orman Quine • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18584-0 / 0691185840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18584-2 / 9780691185842