Wittgenstein's Poker

by David Edmonds (Author), David Edmonds (Author), John Eidinow (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted just ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around that the two philosophers had come to blows, armed with red-hot pokers .

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.27

  On 25th October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting was a disaster, their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of legend. This book tells what really went on in that room.