By: Allan Janik,Stephen Edelston Toulmin
By: Allan Janik,Stephen Edelston Toulmin
this is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt austro-hungarian empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). the central figure in this study of a crumbling society that gave birth to the modern world is wittgenstein, the brilliant and gifted young...
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