Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state
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Vienna's dreams of Europe : culture and identity beyond the nation-state
(New directions in German studies, v. 13)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-320) and index
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Description
Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond.
Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Austria as a Challenge to Europe
Section 1: An Austrian Imperial Europe
Chapter 1: Letters to the Ruling Class: The Public Spaces of Enlightenment
Chapter 2: Extending Europe's Enlightenment: Why Grillparzer Resists Weimar
Chapter 3: Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Rewriting Public Dreams of Political Morality
Chapter 4: Eclipses, Floods, and Biedermeier Catastrophes: Public Spaces in extremis
Section 2: At the Margins of Europe, In the Heart of Europe
Chapter 5: Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: Recapturing a Space for Common Culture
Chapter 6: Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse: The Politics of Decadence in Fin de siecle Vienna
Chapter 7: Kasperl and the Wiener Gruppe: artmann, Bayer and Handke
Chapter 8: A New Balkan Challenge: The Reemergence of Austria's Europe
Afterword: Austria as Europe?: The Art and Science of the Post-National Culture
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