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Rethinking Vienna, 1900 » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Steven Beller
ISBN-13: 9781571811400, ISBN-10: 1571811400
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Steven Beller

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction1
1Vienna 1900 Revisited: Paradigms and Problems27
2Rethinking the Liberal Legacy57
3Fin de Siecle or Jahrhundertwende. The Question of an Austrian Sonderweg80
4Theodor Herzl and Richard von Schaukal: Self-Styled Nobility and the Sources of Bourgeois Belligerence in Prewar Vienna105
5Marginalizations: Politics and Culture beyond Fin-de-Siecle Vienna132
6Freud's "Vienna Middle"154
7Popper's Cosmopolitanism: Culture Clash and Jewish Identity171
8A Matter of Professionalism: Marketing Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna195
9The Image of Women in Painting: Cliches and Reality in Austria-Hungary, 1895-1905220
10Afterthoughts about Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: The Problem of Aesthetic Culture in Central Europe264
Select Bibliography271
Index285

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