Rethinking Vienna 1900 [Paperback]

Fin-de-si?cle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of the century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske'sFin de Si?cle Viennaand the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to question the main paradigm of this school, i.e. the failure of liberalism.

This volume reflects not only a whole range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, most notably though the concept of critical modernism and the integration of previously neglected aspects such as the role of marginality, of the market and the larger Central and European context. As a result this volume offers novel ideas on a subject that is of unending fascination and never fails to captivate the Western imagination.

Steven Belleris an Independent Scholar who lives in Washington, D.C.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Notes on Contributors

Introduction
Steven Beller

Chapter 1.Vienna 1900 Revisited: Paradigms and Problems
Allan Janik

Chapter 2.Rethinking the Liberal Legacy
Pieter M. Judson

Chapter 3.?Fin de Si?cleorJahrhundertwende: The Question of an AustrianSonderweg
James Shedel

Chapter 4.Theodor Herzl and Richard von Schaukal: Self-Styled Nobility and the Sources of Bourgeois Belligerence in Prewar Vienna
Michael Burri

Chapter 5.Marginalizations: Politics and Culture beyondFin-de-Si?cle Vienna
Scott Spector

Chapter 6.Freuds Vienna Middle
Alfred Pfabigan