ISBN10: 0394744780, ISBN13: 9780394744780, [publisher: New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. 378 pages. Published in 1980. Book-length account on subject. One of the greatest historical-cum-cultural texts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Carl E. Schorske's "Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture". The award-winning, magisterial account that eventually spawned a whole shelf of books on its subject, but has itself never been matched much less surpassed. "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 Modernist art and thought was born" (Publisher's blurb). "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 practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsman. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself" (David A. Hollinger). "Each of the seven separate studies can be read separately. Yet they are so artfully integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the ...
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