A fruitful addition to better understanding of one of the most original thinkers of the 20th century.[...]
År 1951 ställde matematikern Alan Turing frågan Kan en maskin tänka? Hans fråga inspirerade 1972 till att formulera idén om informationssamhället. När idéns förverkligande i samtiden utvärderades i en studie 1985 användes termen funktionell autism för att beskriva formaliseringen av arb[...]
What does theater have to do with epistemology? How can it illuminate problems relating to knowledge? On the face of it, very little. The standard texts on epistemology generally reduce the discussion of genuine knowledge to a consideration of areas like logic, mathematics and physics but seldom l[...]
This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the fl owering of Viennese culture between the two world wars,this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. Th e centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi [...]
Volume Three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume. Friedell describes the contents of these books as a series of performances, starting with the birth of the[...]
This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de si_cle gaiety and corrosive melancholy). The central figure in this study of a crumbl[...]