Wittgenstein's Poker (Record no. 4698)
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| fixed length control field | 01419nam a2200193 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2002276301 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780060936648 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 48988526 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | B3376.W564 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 192 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | David Edmonds |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Wittgenstein's Poker |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Perennial |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 352 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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-sičle 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | John Eidinow |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | 192.21 EDMO | 34290 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |