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The Austrian Mind - An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Austrian Mind - An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 (Paperback, Revised)
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Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg
Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists
to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses,
theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with
complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known
as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science,
this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach,
Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of
an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their
philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse
haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful
thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg
domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized
the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and
Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain
attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility
to technology and delight in polar opposites.
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