Fin-De-Siecle Vienna by Carl E Schorske

Fin-De-Siecle Vienna by Carl E Schorske

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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."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

Schorske, Carl E.: - Carl E. Schorske was Professor of History, Princeton University.

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ISBN 13	9780394744780
ISBN 10	0394744780
Title	Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Author	Carl E Schorske
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1980-12-12
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981
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