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    Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Author Carl E. Schorske
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    Knopf | Vintage
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    On sale Dec 12, 1980 | 432 Pages | 9780394744780
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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    This is Schorske's 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 It is also a moving indication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."--David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review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."--The New Republic
    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
    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
    "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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    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

    This is Schorske's 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 indication 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."--The New Republic

    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

    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

    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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