Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Carl E. Schorske

Knopf, 1979 - History - 378 pages

Seven interlinked essays on Habsburg Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focus on the intersection of politics and culture and the achievements of the city's geniuses.

Contents

• Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal: 3
• The Ringstrasse Its Critics and the Birth: 24
• An Austrian Trio: 116

About the author

Carl Emil Schorske was born in the Bronx, New York on March 15, 1915. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a master's degree from Harvard University before serving in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. After the war, he returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. He taught at several universities including the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton University, and Wesleyan University. In 1966, he was one of 10 "great teachers" pictured on the cover of Time magazine. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, German Social Democracy, 1905-1917, and Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. In 1981, he received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and was among the first class of recipients of a MacArthur fellowship, the so-called genius award. He died on September 13, 2015 at the age of 100.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture; “A” Borzoi book
• Author: Carl E. Schorske
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Knopf, 1979
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 17, 2008
• ISBN: 0394505964, 9780394505961
• Length: 378 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Austria & Hungary; Travel / Europe / Austria