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Wittgenstein's Vienna

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The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. "An independent work. . .challenging, new, and useful..
The first part is an excellent introduction to the intellectual and cultural environment of pre-WWI Vienna as well as the mise en scène for Wittgenstein's development as a philosopher. The latter part is an introduction to his philosophy which is necessarily very technical and likely fully to engage only one with substantial background in philosophy and curiosity about Wittgenstein's role in its evolution in the 20th century. The authors succeed in their objective of revealing him to be a product of a philosophical and cultural dialogue..

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911 JAN w

Z. HANDIMAN

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911 JAN w

Publisher

New York : Simon and Schuster., 1973

Collation

314p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-671-21725-9

Classification

911

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Subject(s)

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

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