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Wittgenstein's Vienna / Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janik, Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Austria--History--1867-1918.
- Austria.
- History.
- Logical positivism.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon and Schuster, [1973]
- Summary:
- "An account of the life, the times and the culture of Habsburg Vienna before World War One--the Vienna of Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schönberg, Adolf Loos, Oskar Kokoschka, "Modernism," Mayerling -- and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great philosopher whose epochal work was formed in the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire"-- provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: problems and methods
- Habsburg Vienna: city of paradoxes
- Language and society: Karl Kraus and the last days of Vienna
- Culture and critique: social criticism and the limits of artistic expression
- Language, ethics and representation
- The Tractatus reconsidered: an ethical deed
- Wittgenstein the man, and his second thoughts
- Professionalism and culture: the suicide of the modern movement
- Postscript: the language of alienation.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 289-301.
- OCLC:
- 581644
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