Although we usually think of the intellectual legacy of twentieth-century Vienna as synonymous with Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theories, other prominent writers from Vienna were also ...radically reconceiving sexuality and gender. In this probing new study, David Luft recovers the work of three such writers: Otto Weininger, Robert Musil, and Heimito von Doderer. His account emphasizes the distinctive intellectual world of liberal Vienna, especially the impact of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche in this highly scientific intellectual world. According to Luft, Otto Weininger viewed human beings as bisexual and applied this theme to issues of creativity and morality. Robert Musil developed a creative ethics that was closely related to his open, flexible view of sexuality and gender. And Heimito von Doderer portrayed his own sexual obsessions as a way of understanding the power of total ideologies, including his own attraction to National Socialism. For Luft, the significance of these three writers lies in their understandings of eros and inwardness and in the roles that both play in ethical experience and the formation of meaningful relations to the world-a process that continues to engage artists, writers, and thinkers today. Eros and Inwardness in Vienna will profoundly reshape our understanding of Vienna's intellectual history. It will be important for anyone interested in Austrian or German history, literature, or philosophy.
Victims' State HSIA, KE-CHIN
2022, 2023-02-23, 2022-05-13
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Victims' State is the first integrated account of how Imperial Austria and the successor Austrian Republic responded to the needs of citizen-soldiers and their families in the age of mass politics ...and the First World War. It shows that compulsory military service and war mobilization changed the mission of the Austrian state and citizens' understanding of what they were entitled to, thus showing how war victim welfare was central to shaping modern European welfare state.
In this provocative 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 aristocratic patrons who paved the way for the composer's success. DeNora reconstructs the development of Beethoven's reputation as she recreates Vienna's robust musical scene through contemporary accounts, letters, magazines, and myths--a colorful picture of changing times. She explores the ways Beethoven was seen by his contemporaries and the image crafted by his supporters. Comparing Beethoven to contemporary rivals now largely forgotten, DeNora reveals a figure musically innovative and complex, as well as a keen self-promoter who adroitly managed his own celebrity. DeNora contends that the recognition Beethoven received was as much a social achievement as it was the result of his personal gifts. In contemplating the political and social implications of culture, DeNora casts many aspects of Beethoven's biography in a new and different light, enriching our understanding of his success as a performer and composer. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. In this provocative 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.
Die in dem Band versammelten Aufsatze sind aus einer Ringvorlesung 1984/85 an der Universitat Konstanz hervorgegangen. Sie versuchen, die Logik der Wiener Moderne exemplarisch zu erhellen. Nach dem ...Verlust des Zentralwertes (Broch) und dem Zerfall des Habsburger Ordens wurde in Teilbereichen von Wissenschaft und Kunst eine Restitution holistischer Konzepte unternommen. Dieser Vorgang im Wien der Jahrhundertwende wird in der Philosophie, der Literatur, der Psychologie und der Physik verfolgt und erschlieît diejenigen Paradigmen, die fur die Bewusstseinsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts dominierend geworden sind. Beitrage von Ulrich Gaier (Krise Europas um 1900 - Hofmannsthal ihr Zeitgenosse), Gottfried Gabriel (Solipsismus: Wittgenstein, Weininger und die Wiener Moderne), Thomas Rentsch (Wie ist ein Mann ohne Eigenschaften uberhaupt moglich? Philosophische Bemerkungen zu Musil), Lothar Zeidler (Hermann Broch: Verlust des Zentralwerts. Historische Krise und ihre Bewaltigung), Gotthart Wunberg (Deutscher Naturalismus und Osterreichischer Moderne. Thesen zur Wiener Literatur um 1900), Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler (Wunsch-, Zerr- und Schreckbilder: Wien 1918), Peter Fischer (Ordnung und Chaos. Naturwissenschaften in Wien), Manfred Krapp (Freud, Adler und ihre Schulen), Kevin Mulligan (Genauigkeit und Geschwatz), Helmut Bachmaier (Kaffeehausliteraten), Thomas Horst (Spekulative Aesthetik als Philosophie der Neuen Musik. Reflexe zwischen Schelling und Webern).
This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors ...examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business community became involved in the political process and describes the consequences arising from that involvement. Particular attention is given to the responses of individual businesspeople to changing political circumstances and their efforts to balance the demands of their consciences with the pursuit for profit.
In Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and ...transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicians complicated the public's understanding of who had the right to play them. Audiences wavered between seeing these musicians as the rightful heirs of Austro-German musical culture and dangerous outsiders to it. Thurman explores the tension between the supposedly transcendental powers of classical music and the global conversations that developed about who could perform it. An interdisciplinary and transatlantic history, Singing Like Germans suggests that listening to music is not a passive experience, but an active process where racial and gendered categories are constantly made and unmade.
Spaniards in Mauthausen Brenneis, Sara J
Spaniards in Mauthausen,
2018, 2018, 2018-05-04, Volume:
34, 34.
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"Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives ...about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work"--
"Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theater, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government's relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust."
This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of ...the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.
The Middle and Upper Triassic prevailing dry climate was interrupted by a global phase of increased humidity during the Early Carnian, the Carnian Pluvial Phase (CPP). It started at the Julian 1–2 ...boundary and lasted approximately until the latest Julian or early Tuvalian. In the Tethys this is reflected by a change from limestone deposits to, first, organic rich mudstones and then to siliciclastics. The CPP occurred along the northern rim of the Tethys and is reported from many locations within and surrounding Europe. In this study samples from Lunz am See in Austria were analyzed for palynology and for bulk carbon isotope values covering a 450m thick succession. A known −3‰ bulk organic carbon isotope excursion, possibly as a result of the eruption of large amounts of volcanogenic material, in the Göstling Member and the basal Reingraben Formation has been confirmed. A total of five distinctive palynology assemblages were recognized and correlated regionally. While the under- and overlying formations yield terrestrial and subordinate also marine palynomorphs, the palynoflora of the Lunz Formation is near wholly terrestrial in origin. Climate trends were inferred from multivariate statistical analysis (PCA) of the palynofloral record. Palynomorphs show a general trend from a dry climate during the Julian 1 to wetter conditions during the Julian 2. The wetter conditions were periodically interrupted by shorter periods of dryer climate. In terms of temperature trends the climate was warmer during the early Julian 2 which corresponds with the deposition of the Reingraben Formation, temperature decreased again and remained fairly stable during most of later part of the Julian 2, which corresponds to the deposition of the Lunz Formation. This study correlates with similar observations from other locations from the western Tethys region that support the theory of a wide-ranging to global Carnian Pluvial Phase.
•Quantitative palynological record through the CPP from Lunz am See•Recognition of five distinct palynological assemblage zones•Paleoclimatic trends inferred from multivariate statistical analysis of palynomorphs•Trend from drier climate in Julian 1 to wetter conditions during most of Julian 2•Integration of palynology with bio- and C-isotope stratigraphy
"Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes ...the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and nation-building, as well as of confessional resistance, placing scholars if not in conflict, then certainly at odds with the neutral international orientation of academe.
