Wittgenstein In Vienna

Author : Allan Janik
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781566631327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Vienna written by Allan Janik and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 si cle 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.

Author : Allan Janik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351326147
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited written by Allan Janik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity. One of the most powerful critiques of the retreat into fantasy was that of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early career in Vienna has helped frame debates about ethical and aesthetic values in culture. In Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein's thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture. Although Wittgenstein is the central figure in this volume, Janik places considerable emphasis on other influential figures, both Viennese and non-Viennese, in order to break down some of the persistent stereotypes about the philosopher and his surrounding culture, especially the myths of "carefree" Vienna and Wittgenstein the positivist. The persistence of these myths, in Janik's view, stems in part from the inability of many historians to differentiate past from present in the evaluation of intellectual currents. Janik reviews a number of figures overlooked in assessing Wittgenstein: Otto Weininger, Kraus, Schoenberg, Nietzsche, Wagner, Ibsen, Offenbach, and Georg Trakl. All of these, Janik demonstrates, are absolutely necessary to understand what was at stake in the debates on aestheticism and the critique of a modern culture. Wittgenstein's efforts to recognize the limits of thought and language and thus to be fair to science, religion, and art account for his place of honor among critical modernists. These essays elucidate Wittgenstein's perspective on our culture.

Author : Allan S. Janik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783211830772
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WITTGENSTEIN IN VIENNA. written by Allan S. Janik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-10-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wittgenstein in Vienna" documents Wittgenstein's life in the city: the places he, his family and those with whom he was in contact, lived, worked, entertained and socialized. The book will be a source of enrichment to the cultural tourist in Vienna. Its authors are authorities on Wittgenstein's philosophy especially in relation to Viennese culture and popular culture, in particular the world of the coffee house and cabaret.

Author : Friedrich Waismann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134934688
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voices of Wittgenstein written by Friedrich Waismann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brings for the first time over one hundred short essays in philosophical logic and the philosophy of mind. It is an invaluable introduction to Wittgenstein's 'later philosophy'.

Author : Bernhard Leitner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wittgenstein House written by Bernhard Leitner and published by . This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Related to author's Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1973.

Author : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780631134695
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle written by Ludwig Wittgenstein and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the most important of his Cambridge friends and includes editorial notes based on archival material not previously explored. Incorporates many previously undiscovered unique and significant letters. A powerful record and intimate insight into Wittgenstein's life and thought. Extensive editorial annotations.

Author : James Kenneth Wright
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039112876
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schoenberg, Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle written by James Kenneth Wright and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and the Vienna Circle received a Lewis Lockwood Award (Finalist) from the American Musicological Society, for outstanding new books on musicological topics. This study examines relativistic aspects of Arnold Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic theories in the light of a framework of ideas presented in the early writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the logician, philosopher of language, and Schoenberg's contemporary and Austrian compatriot. The author has identified correspondences between the writings of Schoenberg, the early Wittgenstein (the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in particular), and the Vienna Circle of philosophers, on a wide range of topics and themes. Issues discussed include the nature and limits of language, musical universals, theoretical conventionalism, word-to-world correspondence in language, the need for a fact- and comparison-based approach to art criticism, and the nature of music-theoretical formalism and mathematical modeling. Schoenberg and Wittgenstein are shown to have shared a vision that is remarkable for its uniformity and balance, one that points toward the reconciliation of the positivist/relativist dualism that has dominated recent discourse in music theory. Contrary to earlier accounts of Schoenberg's harmonic and aesthetic relativism, this study identifies a solid epistemological core underlying his thought, a view that was very much in step with Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, and thereby with the most vigorous and pivotal developments in early twentieth century intellectual history

Author : Nana Last
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823228800
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wittgenstein's House written by Nana Last and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book advances the radical proposition that the field in which architecture and philosophy operate includes linguistic and spatial practices. It develops innovative forms of interdisciplinary analyses to demonstrate that the philosophical positions put forth by Wittgenstein's two main works are literally unthinkable outside of their respective conceptions of space: the view from above in the early work and the view from within constructed by the later work."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Alexander Waugh
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747596735
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Wittgenstein written by Alexander Waugh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a one-handed pianist and the fall of his aristocratic family.

Author : Karl Sigmund
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096964
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exact Thinking in Demented Times written by Karl Sigmund and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling group biography of the early twentieth-century thinkers who transformed the way the world thought about math and science Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest theories in mathematics, science, and philosophy and to build a strong foundation for scientific investigation. Composed of such luminaries as Kurt Gö and Rudolf Carnap, and stimulated by the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, the Vienna Circle left an indelible mark on science. Exact Thinking in Demented Times tells the often outrageous, sometimes tragic, and never boring stories of the men who transformed scientific thought. A revealing work of history, this landmark book pays tribute to those who dared to reinvent knowledge from the ground up.