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Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies
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"This set of essays by leading scholars in the field aims to
provide an overview of current work on what has sometimes been
dubbed "the birth of modernity" in fin-de-siecle Central Europe.
This it succeeds admirably in doing, and editor Steven Beller will
be thanked by many teachers of the subject of producing such a
useful collection. - German History "In the not exactly small field
of works on the Vienna Fin-de-Siecle this volume represents an
important milestone. It will be indispensable, for a long time, for
the debate it pushes forward and to which it contributes so much
itself." - H-Soz-u-Kult ." . . tight and coherent . . . not only
because its eleven contributors focus on a single metropolis, but
also because they generally share a common point of departure if
not necessarily a common point of view." - German Studies Review
Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the
century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in
those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has
been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by
Carl Schorske's Fin de Siecle Vienna and the model of the
relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his
work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has
begun to question the main paradigm of this school, i.e. the
"failure of liberalism." This volume reflects not only a whole
range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of
understanding the subject, most notably though the concept of
"critical modernism" and the integration of previously neglected
aspects such as the role of marginality, of the market and the
larger Central and European context. As a result this volume offers
novel ideas on a subject that is of unending fascination and never
fails to captivate the Western imagination. Steven Beller is an
Independent Scholar who lives in Washington, D.C."
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