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Author:   Carl E. Schorske
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   388
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780691635385

ISBN 10:   0691635382
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsPermissions and CreditsAcknowledgments1The Book: Theme and Content32The Author: Encountering History17Pt. 1Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe3The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler374History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel565Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli716The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris907Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring105Pt. 2Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna8Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their Modern Fate1259Generational Tension and Cultural Change14110From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism15711Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation17212To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures19113History and the Study of Culture219Index233

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Schorske knows a great deal about Vienna, and the essays ... are original and penetrating, particularly those on Mahler and Freud. --Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books Clever analysis... [A] subtle, important book. --Douglas A. Sylva, The New York Times Book Review Carl Schorske is ... a master; anyone acquainted with his classic Fin-de-Siecle Vienna will know that fact, and accordingly will relish the prospect of these ... essays. Together they are a brilliant feat of learning, gracefully served. --A. C. Grayling, Financial Times This new collection shows why Schorske, the eminent intellectual historian ... is a master craftsman... [W]e are fortunate to have Schorske as a guide... By his amazingly erudite and finely chiseled portraits of the potentialities of nineteenth-century culture, he has prepared the way for us to assess how we think with history in our own day. --Jonathan Elukin, The American Scholar Schorske is a very gifted writer and scholar, usually clearly and succinctly distilling his study of a great deal of material from many disciplines, avoiding historical and intellectual minutiae, and incorporating colorful anecdotes and quotes... A pleasurable and stimulating read. --Kirkus Reviews What has interested Schorske and will fascinate readers is the interaction between history and the supposedly rootless modernism... These [essays]... show the astonishing breadth of Schorske's knowledge. --Publisher's Weekly [A] reflective and provocative book. --Alethea Hayter, The Spectator

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