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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Karl Menger
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Editors:
  1. Louise Golland
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  2. Brian McGuinness

    1. University of Siena, Siena, Italy

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection (VICC, volume 20)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. The Historical Background

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Cultural Background

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 8-17

  4. The Philosophical Atmosphere in Vienna

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 18-37

  5. Why the Circle Invited me. The Theory of Curves and Dimension Theory

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 38-53

  6. Vignettes of the Members of the Circle in 1927

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 54-73

  7. Reminiscences of the Wittgenstein Family

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 74-82

  8. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Austrian Dictionary

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 83-88

  9. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the Early Circle

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 89-103

  10. On the Communication of Metaphysical Ideas. Wittgenstein’s Ontology

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 104-128

  11. Wittgenstein, Brouwer, and the Circle

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 129-139

  12. Discussions in the Circle 1927–30

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 140-142

  13. Poland and the Vienna Circle

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 143-157

  14. The United States 1930–31

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 158-173

  15. Discussions in The Circle 1931–34

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 174-177

  16. The Circle on Ethics

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 178-193

  17. Moritz Schlick’s Final Years

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 194-199

  18. Memories of Kurt Gödel

    • Karl Menger
    Pages 200-236

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 237-244
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About this book

Karl Menger was born in Vienna on January 13, 1902, the only child of two gifted parents. His mother Hermione, nee Andermann (1870-1922), in addition to her musical abilities, wrote and published short stories and novelettes, while his father Carl (1840-1921) was the noted Austrian economist, one of the founders of marginal utility theory. A highly cultured man, and a liberal rationalist in the nine­ teenth century sense, the elder Menger had witnessed the defeat and humiliation of the old Austrian empire by Bismarck's Prussia, and the subsequent establishment under Prussian leadership of a militaristic, mystically nationalistic, state-capitalist German empire - in effect, the first modern "military-industrial complex. " These events helped frame in him a set of attitudes that he later transmitted to his son, and which included an appreciation of cultural attainments and tolerance and respect for cultural differences, com­ bined with a deep suspicion of rabid nationalism, particularly the German variety. Also a fascination with structure, whether artistic, scientific, philosophical, or theological, but a rejection of any aura of mysticism or mumbo-jumbo accompanying such structure. Thus the son remarked at least once that the archangels' chant that begins the Prolog im Himmel in Goethe's Faust was perhaps the most viii INTRODUCTION beautiful thing in the German language "but of course it doesn't mean anything.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Brian McGuinness

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