Vienna : How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World by Richard Cockett 9780300279368

Vienna : How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

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How did a single European metropolis become the wellspring for the majority of Western intellectual and cultural breakthroughs in the 20th century? The influence of Viennese ideas permeates our modern existence. From the architectural marvels of California to the iconic Hollywood Western, from cutting-edge advertising to sprawling shopping centres, from sexual liberation to gender affirmation procedures, nuclear science to bespoke kitchens—every facet of our history, scientific progress, and cultural landscape bears the indelible mark of Vienna.

This city, which nurtured the likes of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt, served as a crucible of innovation at the heart of a vast empire. However, as the Second World War loomed and fascism rose to power, the brilliant minds who once called Vienna home scattered across the globe, their ideas continuing to shape the world in profound ways.

Richard Cockett presents a comprehensive narrative of this extraordinary saga. From the birth of psychoanalysis to the rise of Reaganomics, Cockett's account spans the full breadth of Vienna's intellectual legacy, encompassing everything from the communist revolutionaries of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This panoramic exploration reveals how one city moulded the modern world—and why we all remain inescapably Viennese in our outlook.

Product Information:

Book ISBN: 9780300279368
Book Author: Richard Cockett
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Book Imprint: Yale University Press
Book Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 34 cm
Book Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Book Pagination: 464 pages
Book Weight: 360g

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