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Wittgenstein's Poker : The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by John Eidinow and David Edmonds (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber, Incorporated
ISBN-10057120547X
ISBN-139780571205479
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038655710
Product Key Features
Book TitleWittgenstein's Poker : the Story of a Ten-Minute Argument between Two Great Philosophers
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicIndividual Philosophers, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy
AuthorJohn Eidinow, David Edmonds
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13.4 Oz
Item Length8.1 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-615982
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal192
SynopsisOn 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 NumberB3376.W564E37 2001
