Vienna,9780391039872

Vienna

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ISBN13: 9780391039872
ISBN10: 0391039873
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-03-01
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Table of Contents

Preface vii
Stephen Eric Bronner
1 Introduction: Retrospectives on an Empire and Its Capital
1(19)
F. Peter Wagner
Part I: Viennese Society and Its Life-World 20(62)
2 Cafes, Feuilletons, Cabarets in Vienna 1900
20(16)
Fritz Hackert
3 Vienna 1910: A City Without Viennese
36(7)
Rudiger Wischenbart
4 Weininger's Vienna: The Sex-Ridden Society
43(20)
Allan Janik
5 Escape from the Treadmill: Education, Politics, and the Mainsprings of Child Analysis
63(19)
Kurt Jacobsen
Part II: Vienna and the Experience of Modernity 82(68)
6 Ernst Mach and the World of Sensations
82(11)
Ursula Baatz
7 Viennese Laughter: Freud's Jokes and Heine's Wit
93(25)
Sander L. Gilman
8. Opera and Hysteria: Elektra and Erwartung
118(15)
John Bokina
9 Images of an Age: Reflections on the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky
133(17)
Stephen Eric Bronner
Part III: A Capital of Literature 150(54)
10 A City "Under Glass": Vienna in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
150(18)
Cornelia Blasberg
11 Karl Kraus and Die Fackel
168(19)
Harry Zohn
12 Hermann Broch's View of the Fin de Siecle
187(17)
Paul Michael Lutzeler
Part IV: Vienna and the Political Crucible 204(69)
13 Victor Adler and Austrian Social Democracy, 1989-1914
204(17)
Manfred Steger
14 Progress in Peace: Bertha von Suttner
221(16)
Jutta Landa
15 The Austro-Marxists and the Nationalities Question
237(13)
Nobert Leser
16 A Tale of Two Cities: Herzl's Vienna; Hitler's Vienna
250(23)
Steven Beller
List of Contributors 273(2)
Index 275

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