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A revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration, so much of modern art and thought was born.
A revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration, so much of modern art and thought was born.
Wittgenstein's Vienna
by Toulmin, Stephen Edelston, Janik, Allan S.
fromTouchstone Book
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Type: Book
"Our subject is a fourfold one - a book and its meaning; a man and his ideas; a culture and its preoccupations; a society and its problems. The society is Habsburg Vienna during the last twenty-five or thirty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The culture is, or appears to be…
In this account, Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocrati…