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Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism /

In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siécle 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, tw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schorske, Carl E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • Permissions and Credits
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTIONS
  • 1. The Book: Theme and Content
  • 2. The Author: Encountering History
  • PART ONE. Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  • 3. The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler
  • 4. History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel
  • 5. Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli
  • 6. The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris
  • 7. Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring
  • PART TWO. Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna
  • 8. Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their ModernFate
  • 9. Generational Tension and Cultural Change
  • 10. From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism
  • 11. Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation
  • 12. To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures
  • AFTERWORD
  • 13. History and the Study of Culture
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR