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Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
Carl E. Schorske
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Description for Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBAH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle 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 science--all have defined themselves not as emerging from or even reacting against the past, but as detached from it in a new, autonomous cultural space. This is in stark contrast to the historicism of the nineteenth century, he argues, when ideas about the ... Read more
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siecle 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 science--all have defined themselves not as emerging from or even reacting against the past, but as detached from it in a new, autonomous cultural space. This is in stark contrast to the historicism of the nineteenth century, he argues, when ideas about the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606675
SKU
V9780691606675
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Reviews for Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
"Schorske knows a great deal about Vienna, and the essays ... are original and penetrating, particularly those on Mahler and Freud."
Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books "Clever analysis... [A] subtle, important book."
Douglas A. Sylva, The New York Times Book Review "Carl Schorske is ... a master; anyone acquainted with his classic Fin-de-Siecle Vienna will know that fact, and accordingly ... Read more
Gordon Craig, New York Review of Books "Clever analysis... [A] subtle, important book."
Douglas A. Sylva, The New York Times Book Review "Carl Schorske is ... a master; anyone acquainted with his classic Fin-de-Siecle Vienna will know that fact, and accordingly ... Read more