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Rethinking Vienna 1900

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ISBN-10: 1571811400

ISBN-13: 9781571811400

Edition: 2001

Authors: Steven Beller

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Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of this century's modern culture. This text offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, through the concept of 'critical modernism' and the integration of previously neglected subjects.
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.48" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Steven Beller is an independent scholar. He has already published a number of books on Austrian history, including Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History (1989), Theodor Herzl (1991) and Francis Joseph (1996).

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Vienna 1900 Revisited: Paradigms and Problems
Rethinking the Liberal Legacy
Fin de Siecle or Jahrhundertwende. The Question of an Austrian Sonderweg
Theodor Herzl and Richard von Schaukal: Self-Styled Nobility and the Sources of Bourgeois Belligerence in Prewar Vienna
Marginalizations: Politics and Culture beyond Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Freud's "Vienna Middle"
Popper's Cosmopolitanism: Culture Clash and Jewish Identity
A Matter of Professionalism: Marketing Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
The Image of Women in Painting: Cliches and Reality in Austria-Hungary, 1895-1905
Afterthoughts about Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: The Problem of Aesthetic Culture in Central Europe
Select Bibliography
Index