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Fin de Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Carl E. Schorske

How did political crisis in late Habsburg Vienna shape the new ideas of Freud, Klimt, Schoenberg and others?

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Author
Carl E. Schorske

Why read it

  • You will understand why modern culture came to treat history as useless rather than as a guide
  • You will see why a new generation broke from the past and went looking for a new sense of self
  • You will learn how one city's buildings, paintings and music can be read as signs of a deeper social crisis

Who it is for

  • A musician who wonders why Schoenberg abandoned the old harmony
  • A traveler to Vienna who wants more than the sights
  • A graduate student writing on modernism in art or thought

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. I
  3. II
  4. III
  5. IV
  6. I - Politics and the Psyche: Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal
  7. I
  8. II
  9. III
  10. II - The Ringstrasse, Its Critics, and the Birth of Urban Modernism
  11. I
  12. II
  13. III
  14. IV
  15. V
  16. I
  17. II
  18. III
  19. IV
  20. V
  21. IV - Politics and Patricide in Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams
  22. I
  23. II
  24. III
  25. IV
  26. V - Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego
  27. I
  28. III
  29. IV
  30. V
  31. VI
  32. VII
  33. VI - The Transformation of the Garden
  34. I
  35. II
  36. III
  37. IV
  38. VII - Explosion in the Garden: Kokoschka and Schoenberg
  39. I
  40. II
  41. III
  42. Permissions Acknowledgments
  43. VINTAGE CRITICISM: LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND ART

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