The Murder of Professor Schlick

From the author of Wittgenstein''s Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe''s historyOn June 22, 1936, the philos ...

From the author of Wittgenstein''s Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe''s historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick''s, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle—an