Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism / Carl E. Schorske
by Schorske, Carl E
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1998. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description; 256 pp., illustrations, map. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; Modernism (Aesthetics). Historicism. Europe Civilization 19th century.
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- Title
- Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism / Carl E. Schorske
- Author
- Schorske, Carl E
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0691029466
- ISBN 13
- 9780691029467
- Publisher
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton
- Date Published
- 1998
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