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* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=179C7ED9822F1556CE8D8506868EA3CF Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics]'', Cambridge University Press, 1996. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/687757 Mormann] (BJPS 1997), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02698599808573591?journalCode=cisp20 Okruhlik] (ISPS 1997), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2998500 Ryckman] (PhilRev 1998). {{en}}
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* Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, Thomas E. Uebel (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9cdb60c6d799f46ab722f49ca5343f9e Otto Neurath's Economics in Context]'', Springer, 2007. {{en}}
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* Nader Vossoughian, ''Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008, 176 pp. [http://www.naipublishers.nl/architectuur/neurath_nl.html] Reviews: [http://academia.edu/2318721 Miller] (MM 2010), [http://sci-hub.org/10.1111/j.1531-314X.2010.01119.x Theodore] (JAE 2010), [http://sci-hub.org/10.1162/DESI_r_00060 Young Lee] (DI 2011), [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/books/review/the-design-of-symbols.html?_r=0 Heller] (NYT 2011), [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YFLmGALhotkJ:techcomm.stc.org/wp-content/force-download.php%3Ffile%3Duploads/2012/11/5BookReview_TechComm_Nov4thQrt_WEB.pdf Crawley] (TechComm 2012), [http://sci-hub.org/10.1177/0042098013497275 Ruedi Ray] (UrbStud 2013). {{en}}
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* Sophie Elisabeth Hochhäusl, ''[http://txt.architekturtheorie.eu/otto-neurath-city-planning-sophie-hochhaeusl/?lang=en Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism]'', Innsbruck University Press, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=12b982530f3fb9d50ca86952873c40cc PDF]. {{en}}
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* Marie Neurath, [http://isotyperevisited.org/1955/03/memorandum-on-training-for-visual-education.html "Memorandum on training for visual education"], [12 Mar 1955]. Manuscript. {{en}}
 
* Marie Neurath, [http://isotyperevisited.org/1955/03/memorandum-on-training-for-visual-education.html "Memorandum on training for visual education"], [12 Mar 1955]. Manuscript. {{en}}
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* Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck, Thomas E. Uebel, ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=179C7ED9822F1556CE8D8506868EA3CF Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics]'', Cambridge University Press, 1996. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/687757 Mormann] (BJPS 1997), [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02698599808573591?journalCode=cisp20 Okruhlik] (ISPS 1997), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2998500 Ryckman] (PhilRev 1998). {{en}}
 
 
* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. {{en}}
 
* Nader Vossoughian, [http://www.academia.edu/3127404 "The Language of the World Museum: Otto Neurath, Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier"], ''Transnational Associations'' 1-2 (January-June 2003), Brussels, pp 82-93. {{en}}
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/texte/MTP_Hartmann.pdf "Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye"], in ''Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy'', eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 2005, pp 698-707. {{en}}
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/texte/MTP_Hartmann.pdf "Humanization of Knowledge Through the Eye"], in ''Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy'', eds. Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 2005, pp 698-707. {{en}}
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* Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, Thomas E. Uebel (eds.), ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9cdb60c6d799f46ab722f49ca5343f9e Otto Neurath's Economics in Context]'', Springer, 2007. {{en}}
 
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* Nader Vossoughian, ''Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis'', Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008. [http://www.naipublishers.nl/architectuur/neurath_nl.html] {{en}}
 
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/hartmann_neurath.html "The Power of Pictograms"], ''Stroom'', The Hague, 31 Oct 2006. {{en}}
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/hartmann_neurath.html "The Power of Pictograms"], ''Stroom'', The Hague, 31 Oct 2006. {{en}}
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/Hartmann_Visualizing.pdf "Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE Project"], in ''European Modernism and the Information Society'', ed. W. Boyd Rayward, Ashgate, 2008, pp 279-293. {{en}}
 
* Frank Hartmann, [http://www.medienphilosophie.net/neurath/Hartmann_Visualizing.pdf "Visualizing Social Facts: Otto Neurath's ISOTYPE Project"], in ''European Modernism and the Information Society'', ed. W. Boyd Rayward, Ashgate, 2008, pp 279-293. {{en}}
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* Wim Jansen, "Neurath, Arntz and ISOTYPE: The Legacy of Art, Design and Statistics", ''Journal of Design History'' 22:3 (2009), pp 227-242. {{en}}
 
* Jordi Cat, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/ "Otto Neurath"], in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2010. {{en}}
 
* Jordi Cat, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neurath/ "Otto Neurath"], in ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2010. {{en}}
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* Sophie Elisabeth Hochhäusl, ''[http://txt.architekturtheorie.eu/otto-neurath-city-planning-sophie-hochhaeusl/?lang=en Otto Neurath - City Planning: Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism]'', Innsbruck University Press, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=12b982530f3fb9d50ca86952873c40cc PDF]. {{en}}
 
 
* Eric Kindel, Sue Walker, "Isotope Revisited", ''Progetto grafico'' 18 (Sep 2010); repr. in ''Progetto grafico international'' 19 (Mar 2011). {{en}}
 
* Eric Kindel, Sue Walker, "Isotope Revisited", ''Progetto grafico'' 18 (Sep 2010); repr. in ''Progetto grafico international'' 19 (Mar 2011). {{en}}
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* Christopher Burke, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2189 "The Linguistic Status of Isotype"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Sophie Hochhäusl, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2191 "Otto Neurath: Mapping the City as a Social Fact?"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Eric Kindel, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2192 "Reaching the People: Isotype Beyond the West"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Hadwig Kraeutler, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2193 "Rondom Rembrandt and Beyond: On Otto Neurath’s Isotype Contributions to Visual Communication and Museum Learning"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Elisabeth Nemeth, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2196 "Scientific Attitude and Picture Language: Otto Neurath on Visualisation in Social Sciences"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011, pp 59-83. {{en}}
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* Sybilla Nikolow, [http://wittgensteinrepository.org/agora-ontos/article/view/2197 "'Words Divide, Pictures Unite'. Otto Neurath's Pictorial Statistics in Historical Context"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Friedrich Stadler, [http://wab.uib.no/ojs/agora-ontos/article/download/2199/2461 "Written Language and Picture Language ''after'' Otto Neurath--Popularising or Humanising Knowledge?"], in ''Image and Imaging in Philosophy, Science and the Arts, 2'', eds. Richard Heinrich, et al., Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011. {{en}}
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* Erwin Dekker, [http://www.denktankvizier.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dekker-The-Intellectual-Networks-of-Otto-Neurath.pdf "The Intellectual Networks of Otto Neurath: Between the Coffeehouse and Academia"], ''European Studies'' 32 (2014), pp 103-121. {{en}}
 
* [http://nyit.academia.edu/NaderVossoughian More writings on Neurath by Nader Vossoughian]
 
* [http://nyit.academia.edu/NaderVossoughian More writings on Neurath by Nader Vossoughian]
 
* [http://isotyperevisited.org/texts/index.html More]
 
* [http://isotyperevisited.org/texts/index.html More]

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Otto Neurath (1882, Vienna – 1945, Oxford) was an Austrian economist, economic-historian, Wiener-Kreis philosopher and briefly a politician (he served as a minister under the Bavarian Council Republic). Before he was to flee his native country in 1934, Neurath was one of the leading figures of the Vienna Circle.

In 1924, he opened the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum (GeWiMu) in Vienna, where he devised the Wiener method of visual statistics or isotypes. His objective was to help workers become aware of the economic reality. Two years afterwards he encountered the artist Gerd Arntz, known primarily as a member of the Cologne Progressives group, who settled in Vienna in 1929 to elaborate Neurath’s ideas. When Neurath established the sister institute Isostat in Moscow, Arntz joined him there for extended periods. In 1934 both their operations in Vienna and Moscow were discontinued almost simultaneously. After the civil war in February, the Austro-fascist government of Dolfuss shut down the red GeWiMu – located in the Volkshalle of the Viennese town hall. In Moscow the Isostat fell out of favour, when socialist realism prevailed over ‘anonymity’ and the ‘Western, constructivist, decadent designs.’

Both Neurath and Arntz fled to The Hague, where they compiled statistics for N.W. Posthumus (founder of the International Institute of Social History) in the years 1932-36. In May 1940 Neurath escaped to London, where he ran his fourth institute, the Isotype Institute, from 1942 until his death in 1945. Gerd Arntz took a job at the CBS and attended the review exhibition of his work at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in 1975. (from a newsletter of the International Institute of Social History)

Gerd Arntz, Otto Neurath, et al., Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: Bildstatistisches Elementarwerk, 1930, Log, PDF.
International Picture Language: The First Rules of Isotype, 1936, Log, PDF.

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