The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

Description: The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 [Paperback] William M. Johnston Product Overview Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin- de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; Reprint edition (23 Mar. 1983) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 542 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 50 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 3.45 x 20.19 cm Best Sellers Rank: 1,305,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 2,387 in Academic Sociology 5,887 in History of Slavery 14,227 in Cultural Studies 2,387 in Academic Sociology 5,887 in History of Slavery - - *** PLEASE READ NOTE BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING *** Please note the featured photo is drawn from a catalogue and will not necessarily reflect the actual condition or cover edition of the item on sale -- PLEASE REFER TO 'SELLER NOTES' for the more accurate appraisal. Any questions or requests for additional photos, please get in touch and we'd be more than happy to assist. For a portion of our stock we use a fulfilment company to store, package, and ship orders, and for these we unfortunately are unable to take requests for additional photos or other special instructions. - -

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