{"product_id":"2026100007601-secondhand-fin-de-siecle-vienna-politics-and-culture","title":"Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: Politics And Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: Worn\/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, Vienna became the unlikely crucible of modernity — a city where political crisis and artistic revolution fused into something entirely unprecedented. Carl E. Schorske's Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture chronicles the intellectual and aesthetic ferment of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Vienna, presenting a series of interconnected essays that illuminate how figures such as Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, and Theodor Herzl each grappled with the collapse of liberal rationalism and the birth of a new, psychologically charged world.\n\nSchorske argues with remarkable precision that the cultural innovations of fin-de-siècle Vienna were not mere aesthetic indulgences but urgent responses to a society in political and moral disintegration. His interdisciplinary method — weaving together art history, political theory, and intellectual biography — set a new standard for cultural historiography upon its publication and remains a landmark of twentieth-century scholarship. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1981, this work leaves the reader with an enduring question: when a civilisation fractures, what extraordinary beauty — and what dangerous new ideologies — rush in to fill the void?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130587554011,"sku":"2026100007601-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5e477e37-9a90-4452-999f-3f3ccab91113.png?v=1786586944","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007601-secondhand-fin-de-siecle-vienna-politics-and-culture","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}