Rethinking Vienna 1900

by Beller, Steven

• ISBN13: 9781571811400
• ISBN10: 1571811400
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of this century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin-de-Siecle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to question the main paradigm of this school, i.e. the "failure of liberalism". This volume reflects not only a whole range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, most notably through the concept of "critical modernism" and the integration of previously neglected aspects such as the role of marginality, of the market and of the larger Central European and European context. As a result this volume offers novel ideas on a subject that is of unending fascination and never fails to captivate the western imagination.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	viii
Notes on Contributors	x
Introduction Steven Beller	1	(26)
Vienna 1900 Revisited: Paradigms and Problems	27	(30)
Allan Janik
Rethinking the Liberal Legacy	57	(23)
Pieter M. Judson
Fin de Siecle or Jahrhundertwende. The Question of an Austrian Sonderweg	80	(25)
James Shedel
Theodor Herzl and Richard von Schaukal: Self-Styled Nobility and the Sources of Bourgeois Belligerence in Prewar Vienna	105	(27)
Michael Burri
Marginalizations: Politics and Culture beyond Fin-de-Siecle Vienna	132	(22)
Scott Spector
Freud's ``Vienna Middle''	154	(17)
Alfred Pfabigan
Popper's Cosmopolitanism: Culture Clash and jewish Identity	171	(24)
Malachi Haim Hacohen
A Matter of Professionalism: Marketing Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna	195	(25)
Robert Jensen
The Image of Women in Painting: Cliches and Reality in Austria-Hungary, 1895-1905	220	(44)
Ilona Sarmany-Parsons
Afterthoughts about Fin-de-Stecle Vienna: The Problem of Aesthetic Culture in Central Europe	264	(7)
Mary Gluck
Select Bibliography	271	(14)
Index	285