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Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great...
by Edmonds, David; O'Byrne, Darren J. | HC | Good
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780571205479
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Faber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-10
057120547X
ISBN-13
9780571205479
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038655710
Product Key Features
Book Title
Wittgenstein's Poker : the Story of a Ten-Minute Argument between Two Great Philosophers
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Individual Philosophers, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-615982
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
192
Synopsis
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-siècle 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. 'Those ten minutes shook the world of Western philosophy literally to its foundations . . . Edmonds and Eidinow have a very good story to tell, and they tell it wonderfully well.' Irish Times 'A meaty, exceedingly well-researched and engaging book. In its dramatic readability Wittgenstein's Poker brings to mind Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman ; in the depth and breadth of its scholarship it evokes Carl Schorske's Fin-de-si è cle Vienna . . . a marvel of passionate journalism.' San Francisco Chronicle, On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.
LC Classification Number
B3376.W564E37 2001
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