Description: The Austrian MindAn Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 Author(s): William M. Johnston Format: Paperback Publisher: University of California Press, United States Imprint: University of California Press ISBN-13: 9780520049550, 978-0520049550 Synopsis 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.
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Book Title: The Austrian Mind
Number of Pages: 540 Pages
Publication Name: The Austrian Mind: an Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 210 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 1983
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 680 g
Author: William M. Johnston
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Paperback
