The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle

Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelbck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelbck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted...Read more