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by David Edmonds; John Eidinow

"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-sicle 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.

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ON THE EVENING OF FRIDAY, 25 October 1946 the Cam Moral Science Club-a weekly discussion group for the university's philosophers and philosophy students-held one of its regular meetings.

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  • Title Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers
  • Author David Edmonds; John Eidinow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York
  • Date September 17, 2002
  • ISBN 9780060936648 / 0060936649
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (18.54 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Dewey Decimal Code 192

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Citations

  • Booksense '76 Nov/Dec 2002, 11/01/2002, Page 1
  • New York Review of Books, 11/21/2002, Page 46
  • New York Times, 09/22/2002, Page 28
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