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Robert Musil Essayismus als Selbstreflexion der Moderne / by Nübel, Birgit

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Robert Musil Essayismus als Selbstreflexion der Moderne / by Nübel, Birgit

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A diagnosis of modern life : Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a critical-utopian project / by Cauwer, Stijn De

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A diagnosis of modern life : Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften as a critical-utopian project / by Cauwer, Stijn De

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Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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Studien zur literatur der klassischen moderne

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Studien zur literatur der klassischen moderne

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Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

Table of Contents: “…The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.…”
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The Imagery of Interior Spaces /

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Journeys into madness mapping mental illness in Austro-Hungary /

Table of Contents: “…The mad objects of fin-de-si�ecle Vienna : journeys, contexts, and dislocations in the exhibition 'Madness and modernity' / Leslie Topp -- Solving riddles : Freud, Vienna, and the historiography of madness / Steven Beller -- Symphonies and psychosis in Mahler's Vienna / Gavin Plumley -- Creating an appropriate social milieu : journeys to health at a sanatorium for nervous disorders / Nicola Imrie -- Travel to the spas : the growth of health tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914 / Jill Steward -- Vienna's most fashionable neurasthenic : Empress Sisi and the cult of size zero / Sabine Wieber -- Peter Altenberg : authoring madness in Vienna circa 1900 / Gemma Blackshaw -- Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying : a reading of the madhouse chapter in Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Reason dazzled : Klimt, Krakauer, and Eyes of the Medusa / Luke Heighton -- Mapping the sanatorium : Heinrich Obersteiner and the art of psychiatric patients in Oberdbling around 1900 / Anna Lehninger -- The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried : a psychiatric space and its encounter with literature and culture from the outside / Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn.…”
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The Imagery of Interior Spaces /

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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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Crowds and democracy : the idea and image of the masses from revolution to fascism / by Jonsson, Stefan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing the Masses : Vienna, 15 July 1927 (Elias Canetti -- Alfred Vierkandt -- Hannah Arendt -- Karl Kraus -- Heimito von Doderer) -- Shooting Psychosis -- Not a Word About the Bastille -- Explaining the Crowd -- Representing Social Passions -- A Work of Madness -- Invincibles -- Mirror for Princes -- Workers on the Run -- Lashing -- Authority Versus Anarchy : Allegories of the Mass in Sociology and Literature (Georg Simmel -- Werner Sombart -- Fritz Lang -- Leopold von Wiese -- Wilhelm Vleugels -- Gerhard Colm -- Max Weber -- Theodor Geiger -- August Sander -- Hermann Broch -- Ernst Toller -- Rainer Maria Rilke) -- The Missing Chapter -- Georg Simmel's Masses -- In Metropolis -- The Architecture of Society -- Steak Tartare -- Delta Formations -- Alarm Bells of History -- Sleepwalkers -- I Am Mass -- Rilke in the Revolution -- The Revolving Nature of the Social : Primal Hordes and Crowds Without Qualities (Sigmund Freud -- Hans Kelsen -- Theodor Adorno -- Wilhelm Reich -- Siegfried Kracauer -- Bertolt Brecht -- Alfred Doblin -- Georg Grosz -- Robert Musil) -- Sigmund Freud Between Individual and Society -- Masses Inside -- In Love with Many -- Primal Hordes -- Masses and Myths -- The Destruction of the Person -- The Flaneur-Medium of Modernity -- Ornaments of the People -- Beyond the Bourgeoisie -- Shapeless Lives -- Organizing the Passions -- Collective Vision : A Matrix for New Art and Politics (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- Marianne Brandt -- Walter Benjamin -- Ernst Junger -- Edmund Schultz -- Willi Munzenberg -- Der Arbeiter-Fotograf -- Erwin Piscator -- Walther Gropius) -- Mass Psychosis and Photoplastics -- Johanna in the Revolution -- A Socialist Eye -- The Secret Code of the Nineteenth Century -- Speaking Commodities -- Deus ex Machina -- Democracy's Veil -- The Face of the Masses -- Learning to Hold a Camera -- The Gaze of the Masses -- Total Theater -- Coda: Remnants of Weimar.…”
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