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Modernity and Crises of Identity (Hardcover)
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Modernity and Crises of Identity (Hardcover)
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This remarkable and engaging book examines the intellectual and
cultural life of turn--of--the--century Vienna, one of the most
important centres of creativity in Europe. Le Rider uses the notion
of identity to bring together diverse aspects of the Viennese fin
de siecle in a new and illuminating way. Focusing on the work of
Weininger, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Gross and Beer--Hofmann, he
examines the various intellectual and artistic crises of identity
at the heart of Viennese society. He argues that Viennese thinkers
articulated at least three different crises of identity: they
unseated the concept of personhood; they redistributed gender
roles; and they reassessed supposed differences between Jews and
non--Jews. Le Rider goes beyond literary history to survey the
mentalities, imaginative experiences and structures of feeling
which are peculiar to turn of the century Vienna, arguing that
Austrians lacked the images of heroic virility on offer in Germany.
Viennese intellectuals saw themselves as threatened by loss of
identity in a chaotic world where masculine authority was being
challenged, liberal political values overthrown, and aesthetic
values subverted. In these and other respects, the culture of
fin--de--siecle Vienna prefigured later developments which we have
now come to describe under the term a postmodernisma .
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