One of political and social disintegration. One of contradictions, most evident in the modern yet historical Ringstrasse. One of sui generis aestheticism, particularly in the decade before the 1st World War. Vienna in the lateth century was a hotbed of intellectual, cultural and political activity and Schorske deftly depicts this with 7 standalone but mutually-enhancing essays: 1 Politics and the Psyche Schnitzler and Hofmannsthal - Their differing responses to the dissolution of liberalism both affirmed the emergence of the psychological man; Schnitzler approached the problem from the moral and scientific side of the Viennese liberal tradition, Hofmannsthal the aesthetic-aristocratic.
And the knowledge that every doctrine of society must remain a utopia will also drive him into solitude. This solitude swallows us in its emptiness. Jun 11, Zo rated it really liked it. An engaging batch of essays -- at times analytically acute, at other points artistically sensitive, and always historically informative. My favorite essay was probably "Politics in a New Key" which focused on the collapse of the ruling liberal order and the populist movements that surged to replace it.
As the description would indicate, I couldn't help reading modern parallels into the three populist figures Herzl, Lueger, Schoenerer Schorske analyzes. It is a great study of the vulnerabilitie An engaging batch of essays -- at times analytically acute, at other points artistically sensitive, and always historically informative.
That understanding of political tensions, and specifically political tensions having to do with the liberal order, informs almost all of the rest of Schorske's essays. Of the essays on art and artists I found the Klimt the most accessible and enriching, but also really enjoyed what he had to say about Kokoschka. I left each essay feeling like I now had some appreciation for how cool and innovative their art was. Throughout his exploration of the arts Schorske never loses track of the societal and cultural forces he is trying to limn.
The book does a great job of presenting what feels like a fairly holistic cultural view, and giving a sense of the times that birthed a more modern and chaotic world. I wonder if I would have liked it more or less, had I more prior familiarity with the time period and figures he discusses part of me worries some of his discussion would've seemed a bit repetitive, but who knows!
May 28, Laila Krause rated it it was amazing. Of course this book is about the turn of the century and the early years of the 20th. But I found the social and intellectual history of this book and its political consequences to be significant and relevant to today, particularly in the US. I was struck by the the depiction of optimism when the intellectual elite were one with the bourgeoisie and of alienation and pessimism when they were not.
And what it means to a nation when the highly educated do not respect the thinking and the voices of Of course this book is about the turn of the century and the early years of the 20th.
And what it means to a nation when the highly educated do not respect the thinking and the voices of the less fortunate. And the rise of nationalist populism.
I read this book in Prague and on a cruise down the Danube from Nuremberg to Budapest and during another stay in Vienna. I visited the WW II sites and the ghettos. I promised myself to never forget the result of exclusion and lack of diversity. Jul 15, Al Maki rated it it was amazing Shelves: history-geography-politics. A detailed examination of how Vienna went from being the centre of a rigid, absolutist society to a hot house of Expressionism and sexuality in the years between and Schubert to Schiele.
The book is a set of seven monographs each on a different aspect of the culture and politics of the city during this period, adding up to quite detailed picture. Fascinating reading if you're interested in the development of modern thought: the importance of instinct and sex in human affairs, the phil A detailed examination of how Vienna went from being the centre of a rigid, absolutist society to a hot house of Expressionism and sexuality in the years between and Schubert to Schiele. Fascinating reading if you're interested in the development of modern thought: the importance of instinct and sex in human affairs, the philosophy of science, the theory of modern classical music, both Zionism and a virulent strain of anti-Semitism that inspired Hitler, radical new developments in art and architecture, were born or developed here during this period.
Schorske won a Pulitzer Prize for the book and was awarded one of the first set of McArthur Grants, since this was his only major book, presumably for this. Nov 05, Caomhghain rated it it was amazing. Schorske has chosen a very precise time period in a very precise place, Habsburg Austria in the years before the First World War which led to the end of the Empire. He concentrates first of all on Vienna, and then on particular arts - fiction, poetry, music, painting, architecture, psychoanalysis - and then concentrates further on particular persons, Freud, Klimt, Otto Wagner etc.
He is fascinating in showing the interconnections of politics which is peripheral to the study and art and o Schorske has chosen a very precise time period in a very precise place, Habsburg Austria in the years before the First World War which led to the end of the Empire. It was a particularly rich period and indeed went on to be even richer after the war. Above all it is a deep analysis and it is, for instance, fascinating to see how such a well-known work as The Interpretation of Dreams fits into the cultural, political, social, caste, etc etc milieu.
Nov 13, George Wayne rated it really liked it. Erudite meditation on the shift into 20th C modernism on political, architectural, scientific, and artistic fronts.
This collection of essays is fascinating but slow to read. They never quite feel like a textbook but definitely give the sense that, once done, you've sat through a really great course. Many ref Erudite meditation on the shift into 20th C modernism on political, architectural, scientific, and artistic fronts. Many references to other valuable works, and if you are curious about this time in history, the book is definitely worth reading. As essays, you can chip away at them one at a time and take a long break before returning.
Multifaceted analysis of a precarious time Schorske has pulled off a landmark study of Viennese life on the eve of World War 1. By dividing the book into essays, he is able to dive deeply into a key facet of Viennese culture while simultaneously painting a larger picture of Austrian life. Hence the death of liberalism, the rise of proto-fascism, and the displacement of the middle class are fully contextualized in art, politics, architecture, and literature of the period.
A great achievement. It i Multifaceted analysis of a precarious time Schorske has pulled off a landmark study of Viennese life on the eve of World War 1. It is interesting to see the complexity of language employed by an academic work from the early 80s.
Jan 31, Fraser Sherman rated it really liked it Shelves: history , art. Schorske writes about late 19th century Vienna as liberalism ran out of steam after several decades. Rather than an overall history, he focuses on individuals and how they tacked to the new winds: anti-Semite militants, Zionist Theodor Herzl, Sigmund Freud, Klimt and others. All the essays are interesting and full of detail but I didn't get much of a big picture feel from the book as a whole, more just snapshots.
Dec 18, Amber Hooper rated it did not like it Shelves: dnf , read-for-school. I had to read this book for school. This book is just so dense and hard to read and understand. That combined with the other assignments we had was just too much. So I barely read it. I skimmed a tiny bit of each chapter, enough to write a short response to it for our assignment. But I honestly don't remember much from this book and don't mind not having read it.
There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. Despite much study of Viennese culture and Judaism between and , little research has been done to examine the role of Jewish women in this milieu.
Rethinking Vienna This text offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, through the concept of 'critical modernism' and the integration of previously neglected subjects. Researching Families and Relationships. Understanding Children's Personal Lives and Relationships. Schorske, who died, aged , on 13 September , was to create a conception of Austrian studies that provided an essential inspiration for this journal.
Vienna: Czernin. ISBN Since the publication of this Pulitzer-Prize winning study in , 'Vienna ' Special attention will be paid to Mark Anson-Cartwright "Nicholas Cook. The Schenker. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Despite his focus on social and political issues, Cook is also interested in. The book shows how art historians spoke in coded ways about the present and carved out positions about the empire and nationalism through their utterances. Since the publication of. Although it is not known how Mahler voted in , in he had openly supported his old friend in the parliamentary elections see the unpublished biography of Adler by Emma Adler, quoted in H.
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