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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
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92/100Author:
David Edmonds
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Date:
October 13, 2020
David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circleâan influential group of thinkers led in the early 20th century by Schlick, who was killed by one of his students. 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 philosophy was ultimately deemed a threat by Austro-fascists and the Nazis.
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... a lively and accessible introduction to this much written-about group. Rather than plumbing the depths of the Vienna Circle’s work, which is formidably technical, Edmonds mainly explores how its ideas reflected the group’s tumultuous time and place. His research has also uncovered important new biographical information, including about its lesser-known female members.
David Edmonds has written an absorbing book on the group of (mostly but not entirely) men who took it upon themselves to try to determine what is knowable, including exploring how we can say there is such a thing as knowledge.
... [an] engrossing and eminently readable history of the Circle.
