A Pulitzer Prize Winner and 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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete.""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
By:
Carl E. Schorske
Imprint: Random US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780394744780
ISBN 10: 0394744780
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 17 September 1990
Recommended Age: From 2 to 12
Audience:
Children/juvenile
,
Children / Juvenile
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction I. Politics and the Psyche: Schnitzler and Hofmannstahl II. The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism III. Politics in a New Key: An Austrian Trio IV. Politics and Patricide in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams V. Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego VI. The Transformation of the Garden VII. Explosions in the Garden: Kokoschka and Schoenberg Index
Reviews for Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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. --David A. Hollinger -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.- --David A. Hollinger
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981
- Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.
