Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Name: Fin-De-Siecle Vienna Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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ISBN: 9780394744780

ISBN-10: 0394744780

ISBN-13: 9780394744780

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carl E. Schorske

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A 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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/12/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Politics and the Psyche


Schnitzler and Hofmannstahl



The Ringstrasse


Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism



Politics in a New Key


An Austrian Trio



Politics and Patricide in Freud's


Interpretation of Dreams



Gustav Klimt


Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego



The Transformation of the Garden



Explosions in the Garden


Kokoschka and Schoenberg


Index