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Chapter 1 - Prelude

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

Christopher Burke
Affiliation:
University of Reading
Adam Tamas Tuboly
Affiliation:
HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
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This chapter summarizes Neurath’s manifold achievements before 1934, when he was forced to leave Vienna. Neurath managed to fit several careers into one, relatively short lifetime, being active in education, urbanism, economic planning, museology, graphic design, and philosophy. After an account of his student years, we document his participation in the proto-Vienna Circle, his theories of war economy, and his attempt at socialization in revolutionary Bavaria. Back in Vienna, Neurath became director of the Austrian settlers’ organization, involved in architectural planning, and founded the Social and Economic Museum, where a team of collaborators developed the Vienna Method of Pictorial Statistics (later known as Isotype). Neurath was also a founding member of the Vienna Circle, alongside Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn. Neurath was a dissenting voice from the Circle’s prevalent adulation for Wittgenstein.

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Print publication year: 2025

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  • Prelude
  • Christopher Burke, University of Reading, Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
  • Book: Otto Neurath in Britain
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009376280.003
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  • Prelude
  • Christopher Burke, University of Reading, Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
  • Book: Otto Neurath in Britain
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009376280.003
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  • Prelude
  • Christopher Burke, University of Reading, Adam Tamas Tuboly, HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities
  • Book: Otto Neurath in Britain
  • Online publication: 09 January 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009376280.003
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