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Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schorske, Carl E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Subjects:	Europe > Civilization > 19th century. Europe > Intellectual life > 19th century. Modernism (Aesthetics) Historicism.

Table of Contents:

The book: theme and content
The author: encountering history
The idea of the city in European thought: Voltaire to Spengler
History as vocation in Burckhardt's Basel
Medieval revival and its modern content: Coleridge, Pugin, and Disraeli
The quest for the grail: Wagner and Morris
Museum in contested space: the sword, the scepter, and the ring
Grace and the word: Austria's two cultures and their modern fate
Generational tension and cultural change
From public scene to private space: architecture as culture criticism
Gustav Mahler: formation and transformation
To the Egyptian dig: Freud's psycho-archeology of cultures
History and the study of culture.