{"product_id":"fin-de-siecle-vienna-carl-e-schorske","title":"Fin-De-Siecle Vienna (Carl E. Schorske)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eA Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- David A. Hollinger, \u003ci\u003eHistory Book Club Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Gordon A. Craig, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history\" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, T\u003ci\u003ehe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts\" -- John Willett, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003e Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCarl E. Schorske was born in the Bronx and graduated from Columbia Colege and earned a master s degree from Harvard before serving in the Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. He was a Dayton-Stockton Professor of History and has served as Director of European Cultural Studies at Princeton University. He was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and his book,  \u003ci\u003eFin-de-Siècle Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. He died in 2015 at the age of 100.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 432 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66219094016349,"sku":"K053435607","price":28.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/5343560700001A.jpg?v=1792048142","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/fin-de-siecle-vienna-carl-e-schorske","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}