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"Death in Vienna" is intended as an introduction to this themed issue on The Dark Spectacle: Landscapes of Devastation in Film and Photography. Drawing on Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others, the articles gathered here address the representation of unsettling subject matter (war, ecological catastrophe, destructive urbanization) in a variety of visual media. The collection's specific focus is on the important role played by space in the depiction of disturbing events. Do images portraying death and destruction generate documents, or do they create works of art? Does their beauty drain "attention from the sobering subject?" "Death in Vienna" addresses these and other related questions with reference to Yevgeny Khaldei's photography, specifically a shocking image he took in Vienna during the final days of the World War II. Together with Sontag, this article also questions our "right to look" at images of extreme suffering.

Frank Ramsey : a biographical sketch / Gabriele Taylor -- Wittgenstein and Ramsey / Brian McGuinness -- The vicious circle principle / Michael Dummett -- Ramsey's psychological theory of belief / Patrick Suppes -- Discovering "Weight, or the value of knowledge" / Brian Skyrms -- Ramsey's Ramsey-sentences / Stathis Psillos -- Ramsey and the Vienna Circle on logicism / Eckehart Köhler -- Logical problems suggested by logicism / J.W. Degen -- The foundation of human evaluation in democracies from Ramsey to Damasio / Werner Leinfellner -- Ramsey's "Note on time" / Maria Carla Galavotti

The current revival of interest in turn-of-the-century Vienna, Austria, as evidenced by museum exhibits in several countries, is analyzed. It is argued that the exhibits' presentation of Vienna as isolated from the rest of the world corresponds to contemporary political interest in central European neutrality resulting from the West German peace movement & reaction to US foreign policy. The connection between the anti-Semitism of Kurt Waldheim & the "Vienna fascination" are explored, focusing on an examination of Waldheim's political character in psychoanalytic terms. It is argued that Waldheim's vision of neutrality is rooted in a psychological predisposition to avoid resolving conflicts, & that his anti-Semitism is based on Oedipal fear of the power of the Jewish patriarchs. The success of Waldheim's campaign is viewed as evidence of a sensibility in political culture that combines myth & gestures of revolt, similar to the new irrationalism of turn-of-the-century Vienna. K. Carande