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.
Historian, philosopher, critic, playwright, journalist, and actor, Egon Friedell (was a key figure in the extraordinary flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars. His masterpiece, "A Cultural History of the Modern Age", demonstrates the intellectual universality that Friedell saw as guarantor of the continuity and regeneration of ...
This work challenges the received views of both Wittgenstein's philosophy and fin-de-siecle Vienna. It re-examines the origins of his philosophizing and its meaning within the cultural context from whence it originated and from a contemporary viewpoint.
Astonishingly, Wittgenstein insisted that he was not an original thinker but one who passionately seized upon the thoughts of truly original thinkers with a view to developing a method of conceptual clarification. He compared his mind to fertile ground in which the seeds of the truly original: Ludwig Boltzmann, Heinrich Hertz, Arthur Schopenhauer, ...
This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental "A Cultural History of the Modern Age". A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientific mind: in nature-research, language-research, ...
"Wittgenstein in Vienna" documents Wittgenstein's life in the city: the places where he, his family and those with whom he was in contact lived, worked, entertained and were socialized. The book will be a source of enrichment to the cultural tourist in Vienna. Its authors are authorities on Wittgenstein's philosophy especially in relation to ...
The epistemology of professional knowledge is a research field that occupies itself with the development and maintenance of professional knowledge at both an individual and working group level, but also at a community level. One of its major aims is to illustrate the effect of information technology on professional knowledge and to create the ...
ORIGINALTEXT: a [ Was zeichnet einen guten Physiker aus? a [ Wie geht es Physiker//innen// in der Physik//er//welt? a [ Welche Praxis liegt der Physik zugrunde? a [ Wie erkennt man Fehler? a [ Woran kranken Anleitungen? a [ Wie lernt man Messen? Antworten auf diese und viele weitere Fragen werden von den Autoren gemeinsam mit Physikern erarbeitet. ...
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