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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture Book

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780394744780 : 0394744780 : 01 Feb 1993 : 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..."Read More

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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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

  • 0394744780
  • 9780394744780
  • Carl E. Schorske
  • 1 February 1993
  • Random House USA Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
  • 1st Vintage Book Ed
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