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WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER: THE STORY OF A TEN-MINUTE ARGUMENT By David Edmonds & John
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WITTGENSTEIN'S POKER: THE STORY OF A TEN-MINUTE ARGUMENT By David Edmonds & John

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    ISBN-10
    057120547X
    Publication Name
    Faber & Faber
    Type
    Hardcover
    ISBN
    9780571205479
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    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
    Author
    John Eidinow, David Edmonds
    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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