Main entry:

Janik, Allan, author.

Title & Author:

Wittgenstein's Vienna / Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin.

Publication:

New York : Simon and Schuster, [1973]
©1973

Description:

314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

A Touchstone book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301).
Introduction: problems and methods -- Habsburg Vienna: city of paradoxes -- Language and society: Karl Kraus and the last days of Vienna -- Culture and critique: social criticism and the limits of artistic expression -- Language, ethics and representation -- The Tractatus reconsidered: an ethical deed -- Wittgenstein the man, and his second thoughts -- Professionalism and culture: the suicide of the modern movement -- Postscript: the language of alienation.

Summary:

"Our subject is a fourfold one - a book and its meaning; a man and his ideas; a culture and its preoccupations; a society and its problems. The society is Habsburg Vienna during the last twenty-five or thirty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The culture is, or appears to be, our own twentieth-century culture in its infancy."--The back cover.

ISBN:

0671213601
9780671213602
0671217259 (pbk.)
9780671217259 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein Ludwig Wien Geistesgeschichte 1890-1918.
WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
Logical positivism.
Positivisme logique.
Intellectual life
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life.
Vienne (Autriche) Vie intellectuelle.
Austria Vienna
Wien
VIENA (Austria) VIDA INTELECTUAL.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies
Books.

Added entries:

Toulmin, Stephen, 1922-2009, author.
Touchstone book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 14853
Call No.: 0000454 PO866; ID:87-B4344
Status: Available