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    Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Author Carl E. Schorske
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Feb 01, 2012 | 432 Pages | 9780307814517
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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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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
    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
    • AWARD | 1981
      Pulitzer Prize
    Carl E. Schorske was born in the Bronx, graduated from Columbia College, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard before serving in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He returned to Harvard for his PhD. He was a Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and served as director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his book, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. He died in 2015 at the age of 100. View titles by Carl E. Schorske
    "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

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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

    Table of Contents

    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

    Awards

    • AWARD | 1981
      Pulitzer Prize

    Author

    Carl E. Schorske was born in the Bronx, graduated from Columbia College, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard before serving in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He returned to Harvard for his PhD. He was a Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and served as director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his book, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. He died in 2015 at the age of 100. View titles by Carl E. Schorske

    Praise

    "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

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