Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
Freud, Popper, Hayek, Wittgenstein and Mahler came out of one city in about one generation.
Richard Cockett surveys the Vienna that produced an implausible concentration of twentieth-century thought, and follows the emigres who carried it to Britain and America after 1938. It is a survey rather than a deep causal explanation, and less penetrating than Schorske or Toulmin, but it is an excellent way in.
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Tyler Cowen
Richard Cockett, Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World. It’s not the same kind of deep explanation as Toulmin or Schorske, nonetheless an excellent survey and introduction to the miracles of Viennese science, philosophy, and culture, earlier in the 20th century. I enjoyed this very much.
Source · November 2023
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