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October 21, 2020
Viennese Philosophy in the Shadow of Nazism
How anti-Semites pitted Wittgenstein’s “Jewish mathematicality” against the thought of Heidegger.
In the aftermath of World War I, the city of Vienna was no longer the capital of the sprawling Hapsburg empire, but of the small country commonly referred to as “rump Austria.” Yet it remained a thriving center of cultural and intellectual life. One particularly influential example was the Vienna Circle, an interdisciplinary group—its best-known member was the mathematician Kurt Gödel—interested in the relationship between language and philosophy. Deeply influenced by the Viennese philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, himself a Christian of Jewish descent, the group consisted of both Jews and Christians, but was understood to be somehow “Jewish.” Adam Kirsch, reviewing a new book on the circle, The Murder of Professor Schlick, explains:
October 21, 2020
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Viennese Philosophy in the Shadow of Nazism
How anti-Semites pitted Wittgenstein’s “Jewish mathematicality” against the thought of Heidegger.