Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited

by Allan Janik

Book Overview

Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138517992
• ISBN13: 9781138517998
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"