Encyclopedia and Utopia: The Life and Work of Otto Neurath (1882-1945)

The present Volume 4 of the Vienna Circle Yearbook is dedicated to Otto Neurath, one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle and one of last polymaths representative of the vanished culture from which the Circle emerged. Situating Neurath's work between the topoi of Encyclopedism — as a theoretical, scientific tool of the ‘unfinished' project of (post—) enlightenment — and Utopianism — as the resolve to work for the systematic improvement of society and science — this volume presents th...