The philosophical atmosphere in Vienna before and during the interwar period

Abstract

[The following pages are made up of those unprinted parts of chapter three of Menger's Reminiscences which deals with the philosophical background of the Vienna Circle. Some overlaps and reproductions are inevitable for the coherence of the discourse.]Like many continental cities, Vienna had a large number of coffee houses where people sat reading newspapers or meeting acquaintances and carrying on conversations. The productive coffee house discussions in Vienna were directed more towards belles lettres than in other cities and less towards logic and mathematics. For my part I untypically disliked the atmosphere of those places. But this is not the main reason why I cannot report a great deal that has come out of them. For if there had been much I should have heard about it.

Citation

(2009), "The philosophical atmosphere in Vienna before and during the interwar period", Becchio, G. (Ed.) Unexplored Dimensions: Karl Mengeron Economics and Philosophy (1923–1938) (Advances in Austrian Economics, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 43-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-2134(2009)0000012007