Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World - Richard Cockett
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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 kitchensevery aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.
The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. 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.
- Godina izdanja : 2024.
- Format : 12.98x2.97x19.69 cm
- Povez : Paperback
- Izdavac : John Wiley & Sons Limited
- Autor : Richard Cockett
- Zanr : Politics, History, Philosophy, Travel
- Broj strana : 464
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 kitchensevery aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.
The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. 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.
- Godina izdanja : 2024.
- Format : 12.98x2.97x19.69 cm
- Povez : Paperback
- Izdavac : John Wiley & Sons Limited
- Autor : Richard Cockett
- Zanr : Politics, History, Philosophy, Travel
- Broj strana : 464