Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Cockett, Richard

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in...
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Author: Richard Cockett
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Cockett, Richard

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

CHF 32.94

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

CHF 32.94
Author: Richard Cockett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?

Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens--every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.

The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact.

Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world--and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Author: Richard Cockett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/17/2024
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780300279368

About the Author
Richard Cockett is a historian and journalist and a staff correspondent and senior editor at The Economist. He is the author of seven books and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

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