The murder of Professor Schlick : the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle
Edmonds, David, 1964-2020
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On the 22nd of June 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck 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.
Main title:
Author:
Edmonds, David, 1964-, author
Imprint:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691164908 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
146.42
Language:
English
BRN:
280111