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Otto Neurath (December 10, 1882-December 22, 1945) was an Austrian sociologist, political economist, and an unorthodox Marxist. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...
Life Having developed some theories about a moneyless "economy in kind" before WWI, the Austrian government assigned him to the planning ministry during the war. After the war, the Marxist governments of Bavaria and Saxony employed him to help socialize their economies, projects he attacked with great enthusiasm. When the central German government suppressed these postwar Marxist insurrections, Neurath was arrested and charged with treason, but was released when it became evident that he had no involvement in politics. WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Returing to Vienna, he worked on something that evolved into the "Social and Economic Museum," intended to convey complicated social and economic relations to the largely un-educated Viennese public. This led to work on graphic design, visual education and the visual display of quantitative information, called Isotype. With the illustrator Gerd Arntz, Neurath worked out a striking symbolic way of representing quantitative information via easily interpretable icons. Their work has had a strong influence on cartography and graphic design. They designed proportional symbols to represent demographic and social statistics in different countries, and to illustrate changes over the 19th and early 20th century, so as to help the non-literate or non-specialist understand social change and inequity. In this way, Neurath can be seen as a precursor to Edward Tufte and Buckminster Fuller. Isotype (possibly an acronym for International System of Typographic Picture Education) is a system of pictograms designed by Otto Neurath and Gerd Arntz to communicate information in a simple, non-linguistic way. ...
Cartography or mapmaking (in Greek chartis = map and graphein = write) is the study and practice of making maps or globes. ...
Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message, or facilitate understanding. ...
Edward Rolf Tufte (IPA /ˈtʌf. ...
In the U.S. postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ...
During this period, Neurath also became an ardent Logical Positivist, and was the main author of its manifesto. He wrote on the principle of verification and "protocol statements." Member of the "left wing" of the Vienna Circle, Neurath rejected both metaphysics and epistemology. He viewed Marxism as a type of science, and saw science as a tool for change. Moritz Schlick around 1930 The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists organized in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. ...
Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of first principles and being (ontology). ...
Epistemology, from the Greek words episteme (knowledge) and logos (word/speech) is the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin and scope of knowledge. ...
Marxism is the social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ...
He was the driving force behind the Unity of Science movement and the Encyclopedia of Unified Science, the latter consciously modeled on the French Encyclopedie. His collaborators included Rudolf Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Nils Bohr, John Dewey, and Charles W. Morris. The objective of the Encyclopedia was systematic formulation of all intellectual inquiry along lines acceptable to the Vienna Circle and its allies. Only two volumes appeared. Part of his dream for unified science was to put the social sciences on a causal, predictive footing, like physics or astronomy. The Unified Science is an integral system of knowledge developed by Edward Haskell, Harold Cassidy, Willard V. Quine, Arthur Jensen, and Jere Clark. ...
Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf Germany - September 14, 1970, Los Angeles) was a philosopher, active in central Europe before 1935, and in the United States thereafter. ...
The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an influential British logician, philosopher, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ...
Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Jewish-Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ...
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thought has been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. ...
Charles W. Morris (1901-1979) was a semiotician and philosopher. ...
Moritz Schlick around 1930 The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists organized in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. ...
Austria after the Anschluss was no place for Marxist free spirits, and so he fled, first to Holland and then to England, crossing the Channel with a other refugees in an open boat. In England, he happily worked for a public housing authority. He died in 1945 with none of his project having come to fruition.
Most work by and about Neurath is still available only in German. His papers and notes are stored at the University of Reading in England. The University of Reading (pronounced Redding) is a university in the English town of Reading. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...
See also Isotype - the International System of Typographic Picture Education - was developed by the Austrian educator and philosopher Otto Neurath, along with the illustrator Gerd Arntz. ...
The Unified Science is an integral system of knowledge developed by Edward Haskell, Harold Cassidy, Willard V. Quine, Arthur Jensen, and Jere Clark. ...
Quote "We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction. "
By Neurath - Neurath, Otto,1939. Modern Man in the Making. Alfred A. Knopf.
- ------, 1946. From Hieroglyphics to Isotypes. Nicholson and Watson. [Excerpts. Rotha (1946) claims that this is in part Neurath's autobiography.
- Neurath, Otto, Rudolf Carnap, and Charles W. Morris, eds. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. University of Chicago Press.
- Marie Neurath and Robert Cohen, eds. Empiricism and Sociology. With a selection of biographical and autobiographical sketches by Popper and Carnap. Includes abridged translation of Anti-Spengler.
- Marie Neurath and Robert Cohen, with Carolyn R. Fawcett, eds. Philosophical Papers, 1913--1946.
Rudolf Carnap (May 18, 1891, Ronsdorf Germany - September 14, 1970, Los Angeles) was a philosopher, active in central Europe before 1935, and in the United States thereafter. ...
Charles W. Morris (1901-1979) was a semiotician and philosopher. ...
About Neurath - Cartwright, Nancy et al., "Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics."
- Nemeth, E., and Stadler, F., eds., "Encyclopedia and Utopia: The Life and Work of Otto Neurath (1882--1945)." Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, vol. 4.
- O'Neill, John, 2003, "Unified science as political philosophy: positivism, pluralism and liberalism," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
- Rotha, Paul, 1946, "From Hieroglyphs to Isotypes".
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