Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philo

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"Wittgenstein's Poker" is an engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection. The hardcover edition was a bestseller, named the No. 1 book on the" San Francisco Chronicle" and the "Boston Globe" bestseller lists.

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On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein's Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein's and Popper's birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larger than life -- and spoiling for a fight.

Author Biography

David Edmonds is an award-winning journalists with the BBC. He's the bestselling authors of Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Wittgenstein's Poker. John Eidinow is an award-winning journalist with the BBC. He's the bestselling authors of Bobby Fischer Goes to War and Wittgenstein's Poker.

Description for Teachers/Educators

On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend. But precisely what happened in those ten minutes remains the subject of intense disagreement. Almost immediately rumors spread around the world that the two great philosophers had come to blows, armed with red hot pokers. What really went on in that room? And what does the violence of this brief exchange tell us about these two men, modern philosophy, post war culture, and the difference between global problems and logic puzzles?As the authors unravel these events, your students will be introduced to the major branches of 20th century philosophy, the tumult of fin-de-si

Details ISBN0060936649 Author John Eidinow Short Title WITTGENSTEINS POKER Language English ISBN-10 0060936649 ISBN-13 9780060936648 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 192 Year 2002 Birth 1964 Subtitle The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers DOI 10.1604/9780060936648 Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2002-09-17 NZ Release Date 2002-09-17 US Release Date 2002-09-17 UK Release Date 2002-09-17 Pages 368 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Publication Date 2002-09-17 Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Audience General Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this

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