Adam Tamas Tuboly, Christopher Burke

Otto Neurath in Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive and accessible account of Otto Neurath's time in British exile during World War II provides a detailed consideration and a new understanding of Neurath's work in fields as diverse as filmmaking, philosophy and economics, and chronicles his enthusiastic adaptation to British life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009376297
• ISBN-10: 1009376292
• Artikelnr.: 70890797

Autorenporträt

Christopher Burke is a design historian and typographer in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading. He was co-curator of the exhibition 'Isotype: International Picture Language' (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2010) and co-editor of Otto Neurath's 'visual autobiography' From Hieroglyphics to Isotype.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Prelude
2. From Vienna to the Hague
3. Escape and internment
4. Becoming 'British furniture'-adapting to life in England
5. Logical empiricism in Britain
6. The language problem
7. Visual education
8. On German culture and post-war re-education
9. From socialist to democratic planning in context
10. 'Sociologist of happiness'
Coda
Bibliography
Index.