Thinking with history

Description

"Schorske begins by reflecting on his own vocation as it was shaped by the historical changes he has seen sweep across political and academic culture. Then he offers a European sampler of ways in which nineteenth-century European intellectuals used conceptions of the past to address the problems of their day: the city as community and artifact; the function of art; social dislocation. Narrowing his focus to fin-de-siecle Vienna in a second group of essays, he analyzes the emergence of ahistorical modernism in that city. Against the background of Austria's persistent, conflicting Baroque and Enlightenment traditions, Schorske examines three Viennese pioneers of modernism - Adolf Loos, Gustav Mahler, and Sigmund Freud - as they sought new orientation in their fields."--Jacket.

First Sentence

"THINKING WITH HISTORY": it is not the same as thinking about history as a general form of meaning-making.

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Other Editions

• Thinking with history: explorations in the passage to modernismPrinceton University Press1998-01-01
• Thinking with HistoryPrinceton University Press1999-01-01
• Thinking with HistoryPaperbackPrinceton University Press1999-08-09
• Thinking with HistoryPrinceton University Press2014-01-01
• Thinking with HistoryPrinceton University Press2014-01-01
• Thinking with HistoryPrinceton University Press2016-01-01