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Vienna How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

Paperback • 2024 • English

Vienna How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

By Richard Cockett

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About the book

How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens--every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at...Show more

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ISBN

9780300279368

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2024

Language

English

Original title

Vienna How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

Format

Paperback

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