TY - BOOK AU - Edmonds,David TI - The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle SN - 9780691185842 U1 - 146/.42 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Vienna circle KW - History KW - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General KW - bisacsh KW - Bertrand Russell KW - David Hilbert KW - Edgar Zilsel KW - Einstein KW - Ernst Mach KW - Exact Thinking in Demented Times KW - Felix Kaufmann KW - Freud KW - Friedrich Waisman KW - Gustav Bergmann KW - Hans Hahn KW - Henri Poincaré KW - Herbert Feigl KW - Josef Schächter KW - Karl Menger KW - Karl Sigmund KW - Olga Hahn-Neurath KW - Philipp Frank KW - Richard von Mises KW - Rose Rand KW - The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science KW - Victor Kraft KW - conventionalism KW - history of ideas KW - logical positivism KW - neopositivism KW - psychoanalysis N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Prologue: Goodbye, Europe --; 2 Little Rooster and the Elephant --; 3 The Expanding Circle --; 4 The Bald French King --; 5 Wittgenstein Casts His Spell --; 6 Neurath in Red Vienna --; 7 Coffee and Circles --; 8 Couches and Construction --; 9 Schlick’s Unwelcome Gift --; 10 Strangers from Abroad --; 11 The Longest Hatred --; 12 Black Days in Red Vienna: “Carnap Expects You” --; 13 Philosophical Rows --; 14 The Unofficial Opposition --; 15 Now, You Damn Bastard --; 16 The Inner Circle --; 17 Escape --; 18 Miss Simpson’s Children --; 19 War --; 20 Exile --; 21 Legacy --; Dramatis personae --; Chronology --; Notes --; Select bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - The story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn 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.The 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.The Murder of Professor Schlick 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185842?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691185842 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691185842/original ER -