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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
Vienna How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World Author:Richard Cockett Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens -- every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. — The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, Musil and Kl... more »imt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire, a vibrantly multi-ethnic capital. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact.
Richard Cockett, a senior editor at The Economist, gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story, centered on the socialist Vienna of 1919-1934. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world -- and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.« less