Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Austrian Mind : An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 - William M. Johnston

The Austrian Mind

An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

By: William M. Johnston

Paperback | 23 March 1983 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


$66.55

or 4 interest-free payments of $16.64 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 7 business days

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.
Industry Reviews
"The old Austria, in all its diversity and unity, in its characteristic ambiguity, is impressively demonstrated."--"Journal of European Studies

More in European History

Rubicon : The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic - Tom Holland
Rasputin : And the Downfall of the Romanovs - Antony Beevor

RRP $55.00

$46.99

15%
OFF
Battle of the Arctic : The Maritime Epic of World War Two - Hugh Sebag Montefiore
A Short History of Ancient Rome - Pascal Hughes

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Reach for the Sky : W &N Military - Paul Brickhill

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas - Lucy Frost
Reading Greek : Text and Vocabulary : 2nd Edition - Joint Association of Classical Teachers

RRP $57.95

$50.75

12%
OFF
Raise Your Soul : A Personal History of Resistance - Yanis Varoufakis
Kokoda : Updated Edition - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $26.99

$15.75

42%
OFF
The Gulag Archipelago : (Abridged edition) - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Heroes : The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold - Stephen Fry
Say Nothing : True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West - Konstantin Kisin

RRP $24.99

$20.75

17%
OFF
Meditations : The Annotated Edition - Marcus Aurelius

RRP $49.99

$37.75

24%
OFF
1177 B.C. : The Year Civilization Collapsed: Revised and Updated - Eric H. Cline
The Eagle and the Hart : The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV - Helen Castor
The Making of the Middle Ages : An Atlas of Europe - John Haywood
Reading Greek : Grammar and Exercises : 2nd Edition - Joint Association of Classical Teachers