{"product_id":"the-murder-of-professor-schlick-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vienna-circle-paperback","title":"The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Edmonds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Poker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWould You Kill the Fat Man?\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Vienna Circle's members included Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and the eccentric logician Kurt Gödel. On its fringes were two other philosophical titans of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. The Circle championed the philosophy of logical empiricism, which held that only two types of propositions have cognitive meaning, those that can be verified through experience and those that are analytically true. For a time, it was the most fashionable movement in philosophy. Yet by the outbreak of World War II, Schlick's group had disbanded and almost all its members had fled. Edmonds reveals why the Austro-fascists and the Nazis saw their philosophy as such a threat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Murder of Professor Schlick\u003c\/i\u003e paints an unforgettable portrait of the Vienna Circle and its members while weaving an enthralling narrative set against the backdrop of economic catastrophe and rising extremism in Hitler's Europe.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Edmonds\u003c\/b\u003e is the coauthor, with John Eidinow, of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eWittgenstein's Poker\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eRousseau's Dog\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBobby Fischer Goes to War\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eWould You Kill the Fat Man?\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). Cofounder, with Nigel Warburton, of the popular \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy Bites\u003c\/i\u003e podcast series, he is a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Twitter @DavidEdmonds100\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766927655200,"sku":"9780691211961","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/014136f634164de47665f2c2b935abf5.webp?v=1780301101","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-murder-of-professor-schlick-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-vienna-circle-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}