Neurath, Otto#
Neurath, Otto, b. Vienna, Dec. 10, 1882, d. Oxford (United Kingdom), Dec. 22, 1945, political economist, sociologist, philosopher. Director of the Museum of Society and Economics in Vienna; created pictorial statistics, which became especially popular in the USA and in Great Britain under the name of "isotype technique"; belonged to the neo-positivist Vienna Circle. 1934 emigrated to Holland, 1941 to England.
Editions: Gesammelte philosophische und methodologische Schriften, ed.
by R. Haller and H. Rutte, 2 vols., 1981; Gesammelte bildpaedagogische
Schriften, ed. by R. Haller and R. Kinross, 1991; Gesammelte
oekonomische und sozialpolitische Schriften, 2 vols., ed. by
R. Haller and U. Hoefer, 1998.
Literature#
K. Mueller, Enzyklopaedie, Sozialwissenschaft, Bildstatistik, Roman, doctoral thesis, Graz 1989; P. Neurath and E. Nemeth, O. N. oder Die Einheit von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, 1994; N. Cartwright, O. N. Philosophy between Science and Politics, 1996; E. Nemeth (ed.), O. N. Rationalitaet, Planung, Vielfalt, 1999; T. Uebel, Vernunftkritik und Wissenschaft. O. N. und der erste Wiener Kreis, 2000.