This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context' workshop that took place in
Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap's philosophy documented in his recently released
diaries from a combination of historical cultural and philosophical perspectives. It enables
further evaluation of the diaries and traces newly found interrelationships and their
systematic definition. From a cultural and historical point of view Logical Empiricism and
Carnap's pivotal opus The Logical Structure of the World did not evolve in a vacuum. This
applies equally in a history of philosophy context as well as under consideration of
contemporary historical and cultural influences such as the socio-cultural setting in Vienna
and Prague the correlation between Logical Empiricism and Bauhaus modernism the connection to
the Life Reform Movement or the Youth Movement with its own life philosophy. Pursuing Carnap's
progression on a micro level of history and referring the results back to Carnap's philosophy
is now facilitated by recent access to his Diaries from 1908-1935. These shorthand records
reading lists travel reports and notes constitute a valuable source for the research of
networks and social movements which left their mark on him.
