The Austrian Mind - Johnston, William M.
The Austrian Mind - Johnston, William M. Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part…
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The Austrian Mind - Johnston, William M.
Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency.
Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler.
Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two