Vienna at the End of the Century: Freud, Klimt, Schoenberg and the Birth of Modernism
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In Vienna at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, amid the crisis of political and social disintegration, many modern artistic and ideological achievements were born. In music and philosophy, economics and architecture, psychoanalysis, and so on, the innovators severed ties with a view of history that was at the heart of the nineteenth-century liberal culture in which they grew up. This book explores the origin of this cultural transformation in a specific historical environment. After the book was published, it generated a strong response among critics and readers in Europe and the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1981 and is still valued in the field of European intellectual history.
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