What I'm listening to: "David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker" (2020)

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What I'm listening to: "David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker" (2020)

"But there was this huge gulf between them in one way. There was a class gap. Wittgenstein was from one of the richest families in Europe. [...] Popper, on the other hand, was from a middle class family. His father was a lawyer. Their wealth was wiped out in the hyperinflation of the nineteen twenties. We came to believe that that class gap was part of the personal antagonism between them"

David Edmonds on Wittgenstein's Poker - Philosophy Bites

For this special episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast (produced under lockdown) Nigel Warburton interviews David Edmonds about his bestselling book, written with David Edinow, Wittgenstein's Poker. It focuses on a heated argument between the two great Viennese philosophers Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the differing accounts that were give of it by those who were there.   

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