El sueño del Círculo de Viena

In post-World War I Vienna, a rare and happy coincidence occurred: a group of exceptionally brilliant minds came together to find out how much truth or falsehood there was in the ideas that had supported mathematics, physics, and philosophy since antiquity. Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and the ideas of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein, these young intellectuals shared a dream of developing and disseminating a world view entirely based on science, free of jargon and empty metaphysics. They called themselves the Vienna Circle. To the founding members (the philosopher Moritz Schlick, the economist Otto Neurath and the mathematician Hans Hahn), other geniuses such as Kurt Gödel and Rudolf Carnap were soon added. The group met regularly from 1924 to 1936, twelve fruitful years in which they managed to revolutionize contemporary philosophy and science. Yet as they embarked on an epic search for the truth, the world around them plunged into one of the darkest periods in history. Between the wars Europe swept the passionate members of the Circle into its current, putting a tragic end to their project. Some lost their lives, others had to flee a continent darkened by fascism and war.