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Fin-de-Siècle 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.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1968019 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author
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. Prior to joining the IFK, he had been on the staff of the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Conference of Austrian Rectors. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Innsbruck. After completing his Ph.D. he joined the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Scholar.