Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture, Paperback/Carl E. Schorske

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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It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete.--- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review -Each ofthe seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated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