Thinking with history : explorations in the passage to modernism /
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c1998.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Princeton paperbacks
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.