Vienna : how the city of ideas created the modern world / Richard Cockett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockett, Richard, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vienna (Austria)--Civilization--20th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Vienna (Austria)--History--1918-.

Civilization.

Intellectual life.

Austria--Vienna.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xiii, 445 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part I. A Viennese education: the rational and the anti-rational

Growing up Viennese: an education in liberalism

Black Vienna and the birth of populist politics

Part II. The rise and fall of red Vienna

The new human

Fresh thinking for a new era: the birth of the knowledge economy

the muse has had enough: feminism and socialism

The war on science and the end of Vienna

Part III. Emigrants and exiles

Awake, slumbering giant! the Viennese discover America

The balm of muddle: the Viennese in Britain

The world reimagined: war work and the open society

Sex, shopping and the sovereign consumer

A Viennese apotheosis: the ascent of the Austrian school

Conclusion: The politics of genius versus the empire of critical rationalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 412-425) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780300266535

0300266537

9780300279368

0300279361

OCLC:

1375544015