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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

By Schorske, Carl E.

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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

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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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
378
Release Date:
1980-12-12
Publication Date:
1993-02-28
Publisher:
Random House LLC US
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0394744780
ISBN13:
9780394744780
Weight:
492 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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