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Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.

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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

The Austrian Mind

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 23/03/1983
    ISBN13: 9780520049550, 978-0520049550
    ISBN10: 0520049551
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    Cultural studies Decolonisation

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.

    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

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