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Johnston, William M Paperback - 1983

by The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual & Social History, 1848-1938

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Berkeley. 2000. University Of California Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520049550. 515 pages. paperback. . keywords: History Austria. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites. ‘The old Austria, in all its diversity and unity, in its characteristic ambiguity, is impressively demonstrated.' - Journal of European Studies. inventory #36551 ISBN: 9780520049550.
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  • Title Johnston, William M
  • Author The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual & Social History, 1848-1938
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 540
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1983-03-23
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 36551
  • ISBN 9780520049550 / 0520049551
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.4 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.56 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 75111418
  • Dewey Decimal Code 914.360

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BETWEEN 1867 and 1914 the Habsburg Empire presented the anomaly of a dynastic state whose floundering for lack of a purpose was matched by lack of a name.

From the rear cover

"The Austrian Mind is the first book in English or in German to analyze both in depth and in breadth the intellectual history of the Hapsburg Monarchy between 1848 and 1938. Based upon an impressive command of primary and secondary published sources, Johnston's book is a tour de force. In 400 pages of text the author evaluates the contribution of Austro-Hungarian intellectuals to economic, legal, and social theory, to the arts, to philosophy, to literature and criticism, and to medicine."--Annals "It is hard to write about this encyclopedic and uncommonly informative and stimulating study in anything but superlatives, for it is equally brilliant in conception and execution. . . . it is replete with detail, remarkably accurate, and lucidly written."--Modern Austrian Literature "A most readable and lively discussion of the complex systems of though current at the time and the way they interconnect. . . The rich intellectual achievement of the old Austria, in all its diversity and unity, in its characteristic boldness and ambiguity, is impressively demonstrated."--Journal of European Studies

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William M. Johnston is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusettes, Amherst.

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