The Murder of Professor Schlick : : The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle / / David Edmonds.
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 Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the un...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 23 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Prologue: Goodbye, Europe
- 2 Little Rooster and the Elephant
- 3 The Expanding Circle
- 4 The Bald French King
- 5 Wittgenstein Casts His Spell
- 6 Neurath in Red Vienna
- 7 Coffee and Circles
- 8 Couches and Construction
- 9 Schlick’s Unwelcome Gift
- 10 Strangers from Abroad
- 11 The Longest Hatred
- 12 Black Days in Red Vienna: “Carnap Expects You”
- 13 Philosophical Rows
- 14 The Unofficial Opposition
- 15 Now, You Damn Bastard
- 16 The Inner Circle
- 17 Escape
- 18 Miss Simpson’s Children
- 19 War
- 20 Exile
- 21 Legacy
- Dramatis personae
- Chronology
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index