Wittgenstein’s Poker
The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great PhilosophersUsed Book in Good Conditions
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Format Hardback
Publication date 01/01/2001
Publisher Ecco
Used Book in Good Conditions
9,50 €
ISBN: U9780066212449
On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the world that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers. But what really happened?
Wittgenstein’s Poker engagingly winds together philosophy, history and biography into a compelling piece of detective work. It ranges from the place of assimilated Jews in fin-de-si�cle Vienna, to what happens to memory under stress, to a vivid portrait of Cambridge and its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell (who acted as umpire during the altercation). At the centre of the story stand the philosophers themselves, proud, irascible, larger than life, and spoiling for a fight.
Weight | 500 g |
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