| Title |
Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism / Carl E. Schorske. |
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| Imprint |
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998. |
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| 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.
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Historicism.
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