Fin-De-Siecle Vienna - Politics and Culture (Paperback, 1st Vintage Book ed)

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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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

General

Imprint:	Random House USA Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1980
First published:	December 1980
Authors:	Carl E. Schorske
Dimensions:	233 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	378
Edition:	1st Vintage Book ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-394-74478-0
Categories:	Books > Children's & Educational > Humanities > History > General Books > Children's Fiction & Fun Promotions
LSN:	0-394-74478-0
Barcode:	9780394744780

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