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The Other side of Fin-de-Siécle Vienna
Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lutz Musner
| 184 pages, bibliog., index ISBN 978-1-84545-446-3 Pb $27.95/£15.00 Published (Summer 2008) ISBN 978-1-84545-345-9 Hb $90.00/£45.00 Published (Summer 2008) Buy now and get 15% off listed price |
"In their path-breaking exploration of the 'other' Vienna, Maderthaner and Musner have excavated the dynamics not merely of the working-class urban culture of the later 19th and early 20th century, but also of the often overlooked dynamism of the social and political movements of subordinate classes in Vienna - this is an original and critical recuperation of 'another' Vienna around 1900, cutting against the grain of orthodox interpretations of this crucial period in Vienna." · Labour/Le Travail
"...this slim volume amazes through its enormously rich information [and] convincingly combines theory and empirical material." · Neue Zürcher Zeitung
"a pioneering achievement. A self-referential cultural history needs, more than ever, a mapping out of the social context." · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"[The authors] offer... at its best deeply provocative and suggestive paradigm for overcoming the tensions between social and cultural history and for thinking about the forces of modernization and the position of the socially and culturally marginalized in that process." · Austrian History Yearbook
Fin-de-Siécle Vienna has become the glorified icon of innovative modernism in the arts and letters. Yet the misery of the masses in the suburbs stood in stark contrast to the urban social order of the wealthy elites who were facing the new 'collective subjects' of emerging mass politics. The aesthetically highly differentiated culture of these elites opposed a culture of the masses stigmatized as profane and vulgar. Furthermore, their skeptical discourse of reason rooted in the late bourgeois enlightenment was in stark contrast to the irrational ferment of a 'politics of feeling' that found expression in (German) nationalism and anti-Semitism.
Wolfgang Maderthaner is Director of the Society for Labor History in Vienna. The focus of his work is mainly on social and cultural history, cultural theory, urban anthropology, urban studies, and mass culture. He has organized some major exhibitions and research projects in these areas, and his books have been translated into many languages.
Lutz Musner is Associate Director of IFK, an international research center for cultural studies in Vienna. The focus of his work is mainly on social and urban history, cultural theory, urban studies, cultural studies, and the cultural history of the First World War.
Series: Volume 13, International Studies in Social History
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Anarchy in Ottakring Chapter 3. Oral Countryside, Written City Chapter 4. Projection and Grids Chapter 5. A Panorama of Misery Chapter 6. The Suburb as the 'Other' of Civilization Chapter 7. Compression and Decompression Chapter 8. From Popular to Modern: Mass Culture as Desire Machine Chapter 9. A Hermeneutics of the Mundane Chapter 10. A Culture of Resistance Chapter 11. The Revolt of the Streets Chapter 12. The Transgression of the Popular: Karl Lueger and Franz Schuhmeier
Notes Bibliography Index