The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

by David Edmonds

Book Overview

From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's history

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelb ck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691164908
• ISBN13: 9780691164908
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"