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Es ist heute weitgehend unbekannt, daß es innerhalb des Wiener Kreises des Logischen Empirismus einen Flügel gab, der die theoretischen Bemühungen um metaphysikfreie Wissenschaftlichkeit verknüpft sah mit der Bemühung um eine sozialistische Umgestaltung der Gesellschaft; so gilt - insbesondere seit dem sogenannten Positivismusstreit - die Verpflichtung der Wissenschaften auf das Programm des Logischen Empirismus weithin als methodologischer Garant des gesellschaftlichen Status quo.Otto Neurath indes war ein Theoretiker, der das Programm des Logischen Empirismus in seiner radikalsten...

Der Briefwechsel zwischen Rudolf Carnap und Otto Neurath ist ein Schlüsseldokument zur Geschichte des logischen Empirismus. Er illustriert die Entwicklung der Debatten im Wiener Kreis und in der nachfolgenden Emigration, gewährt Einblicke in Netzwerk und Umfeld dieser höchst einflussreichen philosophischen Bewegung und macht politische Motive seiner Hauptrepräsentanten deutlich.Carnap und Neurath zählten zu den wichtigsten Vertretern des sog. »Wiener Kreises«, der die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts entscheidend und weit über die deutschsprachigen Länder hinaus beeinflusste. Ihre...

Otto Neurath's famous Modern Man in the Making, first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on a new visual language termed "Isotype" (International System of Typographic Picture Education). At a time that saw the rise of new mass media making hitherto unthinkable amounts of information available, Neurath felt the need for a systematic visualization explaining facts, statistic data and comparative numbers in simple ways. The book can be seen...

On the last day of his life, Otto Neurath had given help to a Chinese philosopher who was writing about Schlick. Only an hour before his death he said to me: "Nobody will do such a thing for me." My answer then was: "Never mind, you have Bilston, isn't that better?" There were con sultations in new housing schemes, an exhibition, and hopes for a fruitful relationship of longer duration. I did not dream at that time that I would one day work on a book like this. The idea came from Horace M. Kallen, of the New School for Social Research, New York, years later; to encourage me he sent me his...

On the last day of his life, Otto Neurath had given help to a Chinese philosopher who was writing about Schlick. Only an hour before his death he said to me: "Nobody will do such a thing for me." My answer then was: "Never mind, you have Bilston, isn't that better?" There were con sultations in new housing schemes, an exhibition, and hopes for a fruitful relationship of longer duration. I did not dream at that time that I would one day work on a book like this. The idea came from Horace M. Kallen, of the New School for Social Research, New York, years later; to encourage me he sent me his...