The thesis I present for examination is this. Even before the founding of the so-called Vienna
Circle around Moritz Schlick, there existed a first Vienna Circle with Hans Hahn, Philipp …

It seems that the time has come for Austria to remember its more recent past, to discover that
which may with pride be called 'the past'. People cannot afford to let their riches rot: whoever …

After the powerful intellectual eruptions at the end of the old and the beginning of the new
century, out of whose stream our thinking and research is still being nourished, the time …

Unlike its philosophy, the Vienna Circle's historical context in the cultural and political life
between the two world wars has so far been investigated and retold only very sporadically …

This book grew out of an international symposium, organized in September 1986 by the
Austrian Cultural Institute in Warsaw in cooperation with the Polish Philosophical Society …

The conditions under which Viennese musicians worked in the 1770s and 1780s differed
little from those described in Chapter IV. The court dominated Viennese musical life, as it …

IN 1907 The Perfect Wagnerite was translated into German by my friend Siegfried Trebitsch.
On reading through his version in manuscript I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely …

Why the Wiener Kreis? Apart from the residence of its members? Neurath suggested the
name for its positive connotations, such as Wienerwalz, Wienerwald, Wienerbrot. And Wien …

F orty years ago Robert Kann published his penetrating Study in Austrian Intellectual
History. 1 This book was a pioneering effort in a field, Austrian cultural history, which has …

Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit”(To the time its art, to art its freedom). Less prominent,
indeed almost vanished from our line of sight, however, is another coeval fixture of Vienna's …