Allan Janik

Allan Janik is a leading expert on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and on early twentieth-century cultural history in general. Janik was long associated with the University of Vienna, the Brenner-Archiv Research Institute at the University of Innsbruck, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. His primary interests lie in modern philosophy of science and the impact of technology on our modern society. Together with Stephen Toulmin, he wrote the classic work Wittgenstein’s Vienna (1973).