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This is a book about Otto Weininger, his works and their reception. Why write a book about Weininger who is usually considered to be a mad racist fanatic? One need only look to Hitler's opinion of the only "decent" Jew he had ever heard about, decent because he committed suicide upon gaining insight into his own character as a Jew. The idea of Weininger, the ultimate Jewish self-hater, is one of the dominant streams in the Weininger reception....

Wien i slutet av 1800-talet och början av 1900-talet var ett myller. Ett myller av tankar och idéer som bröts mot varandra. Allt fler gjorde uppror mot det gamla kejsardömets alltmer förljugna moral. Det var en kreativ och dynamisk tid där många av de tankegångar föddes som sedan, på gott och ont, kom att forma Europa under det kommande århundradet. En av de stora tänkarna som växte upp under denna tid var Ludwig Wittgenstein. I detta mycket p...

In Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein's thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture.

Diese Studie analysiert das praktische Wissen, welches PhysikerInnen im Labor benötigen, sowie dessen Aneignung und Vermittlung. Die erkenntnistheoretische Grundlage dazu bilden Michael Polanyis Konzept des impliziten Wissens und Ludwig Wittgensteins pragmatische Sprachauffassung. Die Untersuchung steht im Umfeld der sogenannten "Laborstudien" und zeichnet sich vor allem durch ihren problemorientierten Ansatz aus. Sie zeigt die Praxis der Ph...

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Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world". In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity...

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. New York Times Book Review.