Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One : Habsburg bureaucracy : inertia versus reform. From Baroque to Biedermeier
  • The emperor and his court
  • An empire of bureaucrats
  • Economists as bureaucrats
  • Legal theorists
  • Austro-Marxists
  • Part Two : Aestheticism at Vienna. Phaeacians and Feuilletonists
  • Musicians and music critics
  • Devotees of the visual arts
  • Critics of aestheticism
  • Part Three : Positivism and impressionism : an unlikely symbiosis. Fascination with death
  • Philosophers of science
  • Philosophers of language
  • Philosophers of dialogue
  • Freud and medicine
  • Freud and Vienna
  • Freud and his followers
  • Part Four : Bohemian reform Catholicism. Marcionists at Prague
  • The Leibnizian vision of harmony
  • Franz Brentano and his followers
  • Last exponents of the Leibnizian tradition
  • Aristocrats as philanthropists
  • Social Darwinists as subverters of the Leibnizian tradition
  • Part Five : The Hungarian cult of illusion. Institutions and intellectuals in Hungary
  • Utopians from Hungary
  • Sociology of knowledge : a Hungarian truism
  • Hungarian psychoanalysts and film critics
  • Part Six : Soothsayers of modernity. The gay apocalypse : retrospect and prospect.