Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism

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Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism

Carl E. Schorske

Princeton University Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This work draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in 19th- and 20th-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Carl Schorske argues, 20th-century Europeans and Americans have come to do their thinking without history. Modern art, modern architecture, modern music, modern science - all have defined themselves not as emerging from or even reacting against the past, but as detached from it in a new autonomous cultural space. This is in stark contrast to the historicism of the 19th century, he argues, when ideas about the past pervaded most fields of thought from philosophy and politics to art, music and literature. However, Schorske also shows that the 19th century's attachment to thinking with history and the modernist way of thinking without history are more than just antitheses. They are different ways of trying to address the problems of modernity, to give shape and meaning to European civilization in the era of industrial capitalism and mass politics. Schorske begins by reflecting in 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 sam

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List of Illustrations The Book: Theme and Content 2 The Author: Encountering History Pt. 1 Clio Ascendant: Historicist Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Europe The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler 4 History as Vocation in Burckhardt's Basel 5 Medieval Revival and Its Modern Content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli 6 The Quest for the Grail: Wagner and Morris 7 Museum in Contested Space: The Sword, the Scepter, and the Ring Pt. 2 Clio Eclipsed: Toward Modernism in Vienna Grace and the Word: Austria's Two Cultures and Their Modern Fate 9 Generational Tension and Cultural Change 10 From Public Scene to Private Space: Architecture as Culture Criticism 11 Gustav Mahler: Formation and Transformation 12 To the Egyptian Dig: Freud's Psycho-Archeology of Cultures 13 History and the Study of Culture Index

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