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  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent 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."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Civilization and Its Discontents (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Sigmund Freud, Ulrich Baer, Carl E. Schorske Richard Rorty ...
    Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud's most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today's society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the human drives for pleasure and aggression can ever be reconciled. This lively new translation with helpful explanatory notes captures Freud's engaging tone for a twenty-first-century audience and includes ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • American Academic Culture in Transformation

    Fifty Years, Four Disciplines

    by Stephen R. Graubard ...
    In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce many of the changes of the last fifty years explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

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    Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture

    by Carl E. Schorske ...
    Narrated by Caroline Hewitt ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 28 min

    A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent 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."Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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