Book : The Murder Of Professor Schlick The Rise And Fall Of.

-Titulo Original : The Murder Of Professor Schlick The Rise And Fall Of The Vienna Circle

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Princeton University Press

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Review One of New Statesmans Books of the Year 2020A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021[A] compelling biography.---Oliver Moody, The Times[L]ively and accessible. . . . [Edmond’s] research has also uncovered important new biographical information, including about [the Vienna Circle’s] lesser-known female members.---Adam Kirsch, New YorkerAs pacy as a thriller.---Joe Humphreys, Irish Times[An] exemplary [piece] of intellectual history, doing meticulous justice to the ideas and engrossing about the personalities involved.---Alan Ryan, New StatesmanA clear accessible introduction to the complexities of logical positivism . . . [Edmonds] brilliantly illuminates why and how the philosophy burned so brightly.---Clare Clark, StandpointA readable popular history of the Circle that deftly integrates the ideas and lives of its members with the story of the Viennese milieu in which it emerged and its destruction. . . . [Edmonds’] historical narrative is clear, reliable and thoroughly readable - gripping, even, in places.---Tom Stern, Literary ReviewA stimulating, scintillating new book on the Vienna Circle.---Daniel Johnson, The Critic[An] engrossing and eminently readable history of the circle.---David Conway, Jewish Chronicle[Edmonds manages to] combine the biographical and historical with the philosophical, without getting too technical. . . . It’s quite a poignant book.---Nigel Warburton, FiveBooksA cracking read.---Diane Coyle, Enlightened EconomistI very much enjoyed this book, and found its direct style refreshing, and I hope it will serve as a model for others. [Edmonds] actually tells you what you want to know!---Tyler Cowen, Marginal RevolutionAbsorbing. . . . so fascinating and relevant now.---Thomas Filbin, The Arts FuseAn accessible introduction to the group of philosophers and scientists who formed the influential Vienna Circle in the 20th century. . . . Edmonds tells its story thoughtfully in this fascinating mix of philosophy, biography and cultural history.---David Herman, Jewish RenaissanceEdmonds has written a compelling, captivating, and easily approachable book on the history of the Vienna Circle. He is witty, engaging, knows where to put emphasis, and how to draw lively pictures of those philosophers that are still too often conceived as technically minded abstract logicians. . . .Edmonds’ book will make you understand why the Vienna Circle was so important back in the 1920s, and still important in the 2020s.---Adam Tamas Tuboly, Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books[A] lively new book. . . .Edmonds draws unexpected connections within the sprawling web of thinkers and artists in interwar Vienna. . . bringing to life the artistic and political flavour of those coffee-house debates---Jonathan Egid, Times Literary SupplementAn always-readable obituary for the philosophers who sought a common basis for western thought while communism and Nazism were on the bloody rise.---Frederic Raphael, Times Literary Supplement From the author of Wittgensteins Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europes historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelbock, a deranged former student of Schlicks, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelbock 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.The Vienna Circles members included Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and the eccentric logician Kurt Godel. On its fringes