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1 hour agoOtto Neurath and the Migration of Ideas
Otto Neurath led a socially engaged, politically radical wing of the Vienna Circle, tying epistemic commitments to social action and advocating radical physicalism.
When Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.