Curated playlist
20th-century Austrian male writers
- Sigmund FreudBefore Sigmund Freud studied dreams, he dissected hundreds of eels. He was searching for their male reproductive organs.
- Franz KafkaFranz Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn everything he had written. Brod refused.
- Friedrich HayekThree days before the 1929 Wall Street crash, Friedrich Hayek wrote that no sudden collapse was expected.
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger broke into a locked gym on weekends as a teenager. He later became California's governor.
- Edmund HusserlA Franciscan priest smuggled approximately 40,000 pages of Edmund Husserl's notes out of Nazi Germany.
- Martin BuberDo you meet another person as a full human being, or as an object? Martin Buber's I and Thou asks this.
- Ludwig von MisesNazi troops raided Ludwig von Mises's Vienna apartment and took his papers. He was already in Geneva.
- Joseph SchumpeterJoseph Schumpeter did not coin "creative destruction", the phrase he made famous. He borrowed it from Werner Sombart.
- Karl PopperSir Karl Raimund Popper was born in Vienna on the 28th of July 1902 and died on the 17th of September 1994. In between, he built a philosophy of science on an odd idea. The strongest theories, he argued, are the ones most exposed to being…
- Ernst MachEinstein called Ernst Mach a precursor of general relativity, yet Mach apparently rejected the theory.