Modernity and crises of identity : culture and society in fin-de-siècle Vienna

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Modernity and crises of identity : culture and society in fin-de-siècle Vienna

Jacques Le Rider ; translated by Rosemary Morris

vi, 380 p

Jacques

Rosemary

Original title and publication: Modernité viennoise et crises d l'identité; Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1990.- Contents: Reflections on Viennese modernity -- Individualism, solitude and identity crisis -- The mystic and the genius -- Narcissus -- Schreber, Weininger, Hofmannsthal -- The feminine at work in (post)modernity -- Law of the father, law of the mother, and Otto Gross -- Electra, Antigone and Ariadne -- Masculine-feminine-Jew: A triangle of the times -- The assimilated Jews of Vienna -- Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl: in the 'new ghetto' -- Each a modern Moses -- Karl Kraus, or the undiscoverable Jewish identity -- The 'cultural Zionism' of Richard Beer-Hofmann -- Conclusion: The (post)modern indeterminacy of identity.- Select bibliography of works in English: p. 365-366