Rethinking Vienna 1900

Published by Berghahn Books 2001

Rethinking Vienna 1900

Edited by: Steven Beller

Volume 3 in the series Austrian and Habsburg Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782384786

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About this book

Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin de Siècle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to question the main paradigm of this school, i.e. the "failure of liberalism."

This volume reflects not only a whole range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, most notably though the concept of "critical modernism" and the integration of previously neglected aspects such as the role of marginality, of the market and the larger Central and European context. As a result this volume offers novel ideas on a subject that is of unending fascination and never fails to captivate the Western imagination.

Author / Editor information

Steven Beller is an Independent Scholar who lives in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

“This set of essays by leading scholars in the field aims to provide an overview of current work on what has sometimes been dubbed ‘the birth of modernity’ in fin-de-siècle Central Europe. This it succeeds admirably in doing, and editor Steven Beller will be thanked by many teachers of the subject of producing such a useful collection. · German History

"In the not exactly small field of works on the Vienna Fin-de-Siècle this volume represents an important milestone. It will be indispensable, for a long time, for the debate it pushes forward and to which it contributes so much itself." · H-Soz-u-Kult

"... tight and coherent ... not only because its eleven contributors focus on a single metropolis, but also because they generally share a common point of departure if not necessarily a common point of view." · German Studies Review

"This enthralling collection of ten distinguished essays provides not only the best introduction to the subject, but is a major contribution in its own right." · Tim Blanning, Cambridge University

"Beller's excellent introduction ... clearly lays out the scope of the original argument, provides a sound review of existing scholarship and a clear summary... [A] well-organized and focused [collection]." · Laura Gellott, University of Wisconsin-Parkside

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	x
INTRODUCTION Steven Beller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 VIENNA 1900 REVISITED Paradigms and Problems Allan Janik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Chapter 2 RETHINKING THE LIBERAL LEGACY Pieter M. Judson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 3 FIN DE SIÈCLE OR JAHRHUNDERTWENDE The Question of an Austrian Sonderweg James Shedel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter 4 THEODOR HERZL AND RICHARD VON SCHAUKAL Self-Styled Nobility and the Sources of Bourgeois Belligerence in Prewar Vienna Michael Burri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 5 MARGINALIZATIONS Politics and Culture beyond Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Scott Spector Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Chapter 6 FREUD’S “VIENNA MIDDLE” Alfred Pfabigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 7 POPPER’S COSMOPOLITANISM Culture Clash and Jewish Identity Malachi Haim Hacohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Chapter 8 A MATTER OF PROFESSIONALISM Marketing Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Robert Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 9 THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN PAINTING Clichés and Reality in Austria-Hungary, 1895–1905 Ilona Sármány-Parsons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Chapter 10 AFTERTHOUGHTS ABOUT FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VIENNA The Problem of Aesthetic Culture in Central Europe Mary Gluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	264
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: October 1, 2001
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