false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166491498m/12074.jpg 12074 8 <P>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. <P>An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, <I>Wittgenstein's Poker</i> 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. 1103754 2001 Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers total:411|5:69|4:168|3:136|2:34|1:4| 411 1497 603 50 5 5 false false Sat Mar 24 07:08:17 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 03 12:40:56 -0700 2007 par excellence at the exact moment when everyone started to ignore analytical philosophy. But at least he got to survive to see himself become extinct.

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The book is a fluffy soap opera that doesn't attempt to seriously describe either man's thoughts, and what it did describe was subpar to any "Philosophers for Beginners" comic books. The authors' characterization of Wittgenstein vacillated betwee...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 06:07:05 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 03:25:15 -0700 2009
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