Author Schorske, Carl E.

Title Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism / Carl E. Schorske.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.
Location Call Number Status
 Monograph Collection  CB204 .S37 1998  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 240 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The book: theme and content -- The author: encountering history -- The idea of the city in European thought: Voltaire to Spengler -- History as vocation in Burckhardt's Basel -- Medieval revival and its modern content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli -- The quest for the grail: Wagner and Morris -- Museum in contested space: the sword, the scepter, and the ring -- Grace and the word: Austria's two cultures and their modern fate -- Generational tension and cultural change -- From public scene to private space: architecture as culture criticism -- Gustav Mahler: formation and transformation -- To the Egyptian dig: Freud's psycho-archeology of cultures -- History and the study of culture.
Subject(s) Europe -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Historicism.