Wittgenstein's Vienna

Wittgensteins Vienna is a remarkable book about the most important and original philosopher of our age, the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of its dissolution, and Vienna with its fin-de-siecle gaiety and its corrosive melancholy. Ludwig Wittgenstein was a brilliant and gifted young thinker who forged his ideas in a classical revolt against the stuffy, doomed, and moralistic lives of the old regime. As a portrait of Wittgenstein, Wittgensteins Vienna is superbly realized; it is a portrait of the age, with dazzling and unusual parallels to our own confused society. Wittgensteins Vienna is informative background reading for philosophy students and any non-specialist general reader with an interest in the modern history of western philosophy.Janik, Allan is the author of 'Wittgenstein's Vienna', published 1996 under ISBN 9781566631327 and ISBN 1566631327.