Fin-de-siáecle Vienna: Politics and CultureA landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek |
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Contents
Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal | 5 |
The Ringstrasse Its Critics and the Birth of Urban Modernism | 24 |
An Austrian Trio 1 16 | 117 |
Politics and Patricide in Freuds Interpretation of Dreams | 185 |
Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego | 208 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Fin-de-siáecle Vienna: Politics and Culture Volume 478 of Vintage Series |
| Author | Carl E. Schorske |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1981 |
| ISBN | 0394744780, 9780394744780 |
| Length | 378 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Austria & Hungary History / Europe / Western |
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