The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 by William M. J

Description: The Austrian Mind by William M. Johnston Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Viennas coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Viennas 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. Flap "The Austrian Mind is the first book in English or in German to analyze both in depth and in breadth the intellectual history of the Hapsburg Monarchy between 1848 and 1938. Based upon an impressive command of primary and secondary published sources, Johnstons book is a tour de force. In 400 pages of text the author evaluates the contribution of Austro-Hungarian intellectuals to economic, legal, and social theory, to the arts, to philosophy, to literature and criticism, and to medicine." -- Annals "It is hard to write about this encyclopedic and uncommonly informative and stimulating study in anything but superlatives, for it is equally brilliant in conception and execution. . . . it is replete with detail, remarkably accurate, and lucidly written." -- Modern Austrian Literature "A most readable and lively discussion of the complex systems of though current at the time and the way they interconnect. . . The rich intellectual achievement of the old Austria, in all its diversity and unity, in its characteristic boldness and ambiguity, is impressively demonstrated." -- Journal of European Studies Author Biography William M. Johnston is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusettes, Amherst. Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Habsburg Bureacracy: Inertia versus Reform Part II. Aestheticism at Vienna Part III. Positivism and Impressionism: An Unlikely Symbiosis Part IV. Bohemian Reform Catholicism Part V. The Hungarian Cult of Illusion Part VI. Soothsayers of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index Review "The old Austria, in all its diversity and unity, in its characteristic ambiguity, is impressively demonstrated."--"Journal of European Studies Details ISBN0520049551 Author William M. Johnston Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520049551 ISBN-13 9780520049550 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1983 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Berkerley Birth 1936 Pages 540 Short Title AUSTRIAN MIND REV/E Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780520049550 UK Release Date 1983-03-23 Illustrations 1 frontisp. AU Release Date 1983-03-23 NZ Release Date 1983-03-23 US Release Date 1983-03-23 Publication Date 1983-03-23 DEWEY 914.3603 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159733213;

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