Thinking with History : : Explorations in the Passage to Modernism / / Carl E. Schorske.
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siécle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 12 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Permissions and Credits
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTIONS
- 1. The Book: Theme and Content
- 2. The Author: Encountering History
- PART ONE. Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe
- 3. The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler
- 4. History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel
- 5. Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli
- 6. The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris
- 7. Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring
- PART TWO. Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna
- 8. Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their ModernFate
- 9. Generational Tension and Cultural Change
- 10. From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism
- 11. Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation
- 12. To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures
- AFTERWORD
- 13. History and the Study of Culture
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR