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Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism

Title
Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism / Carl E. Schorske.
Author
Schorske, Carl E.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998.

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Book/TextUse in library JFE 98-4548Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
xiv, 240 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Europe > Civilization > 19th century
  • Europe > Intellectual life > 19th century
  • Modernism (Aesthetics)
  • Historicism
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFE 98-4548
ISBN
0691059772 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
97044484
OCLC
37870707
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 98-4548
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