A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself; in the face of modernisms defiant suggestion that history is obsolete."-- David A. Hollinger; History Book Club Review"Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the books wholeness and the momentum of its argument."-- Gordon A. Craig; The New Republic"A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper; front page; The New York Times Book Review"Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett; The New York Review of Books"A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing."-- Newsweek
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