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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Reminiscences of the Vienna Circle and the Mathematical Colloquium (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
Series: Vienna Circle Collection, 22
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Karl Menger was born in Vienna on January 13, 1902, the only child
of two gifted parents. His mother Hermione, nee Andermann
(1870-1922), in addition to her musical abilities, wrote and
published short stories and novelettes, while his father Carl
(1840-1921) was the noted Austrian economist, one of the founders
of marginal utility theory. A highly cultured man, and a liberal
rationalist in the nine teenth century sense, the elder Menger had
witnessed the defeat and humiliation of the old Austrian empire by
Bismarck's Prussia, and the subsequent establishment under Prussian
leadership of a militaristic, mystically nationalistic,
state-capitalist German empire - in effect, the first modern
"military-industrial complex. " These events helped frame in him a
set of attitudes that he later transmitted to his son, and which
included an appreciation of cultural attainments and tolerance and
respect for cultural differences, com bined with a deep suspicion
of rabid nationalism, particularly the German variety. Also a
fascination with structure, whether artistic, scientific,
philosophical, or theological, but a rejection of any aura of
mysticism or mumbo-jumbo accompanying such structure. Thus the son
remarked at least once that the archangels' chant that begins the
Prolog im Himmel in Goethe's Faust was perhaps the most viii
INTRODUCTION beautiful thing in the German language "but of course
it doesn't mean anything."
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