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Book SynopsisIn this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have come t
Trade Review"Schorske knows a great deal about Vienna, and the essays ... are original and penetrating, particularly those on Mahler and Freud."--Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books "Clever analysis... [A] subtle, important book."--Douglas A. Sylva, The New York Times Book Review "Carl Schorske is ... a master; anyone acquainted with his classic Fin-de-Siecle Vienna will know that fact, and accordingly will relish the prospect of these ... essays. Together they are a brilliant feat of learning, gracefully served."--A. C. Grayling, Financial Times "This new collection shows why Schorske, the eminent intellectual historian ... is a master craftsman... [W]e are fortunate to have Schorske as a guide... By his amazingly erudite and finely chiseled portraits of the potentialities of nineteenth-century culture, he has prepared the way for us to assess how we think with history in our own day."--Jonathan Elukin, The American Scholar "Schorske is a very gifted writer and scholar, usually clearly and succinctly distilling his study of a great deal of material from many disciplines, avoiding historical and intellectual minutiae, and incorporating colorful anecdotes and quotes... A pleasurable and stimulating read."--Kirkus Reviews "What has interested Schorske and will fascinate readers is the interaction between history and the supposedly rootless modernism... These [essays]... show the astonishing breadth of Schorske's knowledge."--Publisher's Weekly "[A] reflective and provocative book."--Alethea Hayter, The Spectator
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPermissions and CreditsAcknowledgments1The Book: Theme and Content32The Author: Encountering History17Pt. 1Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe3The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler374History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel565Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli716The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris907Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring105Pt. 2Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna8Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their Modern Fate1259Generational Tension and Cultural Change14110From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism15711Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation17212To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures19113History and the Study of Culture219Index233
