The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I—the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work...challenging, new, and useful.”—New York Times Book Review.
In Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein's Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points... Læs mere
Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world