Vienna : how the city of ideas created the modern world
Cockett, Richard2024
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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens - every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School.
Main title:
Vienna : how the city of ideas created the modern world / Richard Cockett.
Author:
Cockett, Richard, author
Imprint:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
Collation:
xiii, 445 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780300279368 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
943.61305943.613
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2879975
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