The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History
The Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

Author: David S. Luft

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1350202215

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Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler's annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment. Here, David S. Luft begins by locating his narrative in the region known as Cisleithanian Austria, the area to the west of the Leitha River that was the basis for the modern Austrian state after 1740. Chapter 2 provides a history of the German-speaking intellectual life of these central lands of the Habsburg Monarchy (Austria and Bohemia) from the Enlightenment to annexation by Nazi Germany. Chapters 3 to 5 identify the most important philosophers, writers, and social thinkers who contributed to Austrian intellectual life in the period between 1740 and 1938/1939 and address the intellectual significance of their work. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Luft's book brings out the contributions of major figures such as Wittgenstein, Hofmannsthal, Musil, Kafka, Rilke, and Freud, but also draws attention to less well-known figures such as Bolzano, Brentano, Grillparzer, Stifter, Broch, and Hayek.

A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918
A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918

Author: Robert A. Kann

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1980-11-26

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 9780520042063

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Describes, surveys, and discusses the major historical aspects of the Habsburg Empire - diplomatic, political, institutional, socioeconomic, and cultural.

Models of Political Competence
Models of Political Competence

Author: Maria Golubeva

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-05-20

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9004250743

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Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced at the courts of Burgundy and Austrian Habsburg over a period reaching from the 1470s until the early 1700s, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court historians between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The official chronicles and histories studied in this work not only reveal a growing influence of secular political thinking on the evolving model of political competence, but also present in detail the close relationship between the nascent state ideology and secular political theory. More broadly, following the development of official history-writing, Models of Political Competence highlights the importance of historiography for the research on political thinking and its relevance for our understanding of the modern state in Europe and its origins.

Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Author: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780874518719

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Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

Prosperity and Plunder
Prosperity and Plunder

Author: Derek Edward Dawson Beales

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-24

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780521590907

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In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By 1750 there were at least 25,000 communities containing at least 350,000 inmates. They constructed vast buildings, dominated education, and played a large part in the practice and patronage of learning, music, and the arts. They also fulfilled an amazing variety of political, economic and social roles, notably in providing career opportunities for women. Yet many accounts of the period ignore them altogether. Prosperity and Plunder recovers this forgotten dimension of European history, assesses the importance of monasteries across Catholic Europe, and compares their position in different countries. It goes on to explain the almost complete destruction of the monasteries between 1750 and 1815 through reforming rulers, 'Enlightenment', and the French Revolution, and asks how much society gained and lost in the process.

The Rise of Political Anti-semitism in Germany & Austria
The Rise of Political Anti-semitism in Germany & Austria

Author: Peter G. J. Pulzer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780674771666

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To understand the 20th century, we must know the 19th. It was then that an ancient prejudice was forged into a modern political weapon. How and why this happened is shown in this classic study by Peter Pulzer, first published in 1964 and now reprinted with a new Introduction by the author.

The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe
The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe

Author: T. Kamusella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-16

Total Pages: 1167

ISBN-13: 0230583474

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This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.