Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
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Book Overview
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Si cle 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, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have come to do their thinking without history. Modern art, modern architecture, modern music, modern...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691606676
ISBN13:9780691606675
Release Date:July 2014
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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A Scholarly yet Provacative Work
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A must have for all those interested in the culture of the fin-de-siecle as well as turn-of-the-century modernism.
Brilliant!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
The title tells everything. If you want to dive deep into a revolutionary human manifestation that marks one of the most intriguing passages of History, you have to read this book. The author shows you the atmosphere of Europe, using the city of Viena, when the end of a century and the beginning of another is getting closer... You cant imagine the change inside the various spheres of society.
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