Volksbildung), Stadler succeeds in showing that the Vienna Circle was indeed a central element in the culture of its time. One certainly takes from his book a deepened grasp of the intellectual, social, and political environment in which the Vienna Circle operated. But Stadler's account also makes clear why the Circle eventually dissolved. For the constant battering by ideological and political enemies (which accused the Circle of being destructive, liberal, anticatholic, Jewish, non-Austrian, etc.) eventually made it impossible for its members to survive at the University and in Austria as a whole. Even before the "Anschluss" in 1938 the hostile climate had forced some members of the Circle to emigrate. The result, ratified, by Hitler's march to Vienna was the complete dispersion but, at the same time, also the internationalization of the Vienna Circle." /> Friedrich Stadler, Studien zum Wiener Kreis - Sluga Hans | sdvig press