Rediscovering History

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ISBN: 9780804723091 | 0804723095
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/1/1994

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This book, offering the state-of-the-art in cultural/intellectual history today, examines some of the major problems and themes critical to the historical study of European culture. It explores the limits and capacities of historical consciousness in modernity and shares a concern with the ways in which cultural productions are connected to self and society.

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Contributors
Introduction	p. 1
Psychopathologies of Modern Space: Metropolitan Fear from Agoraphobia to Estrangement	p. 11
Selective Affinities: Three Generations of German Intellectuals	p. 30
The Moral Journey of the First Viennese Psychoanalysts	p. 40
Psychoanalysis, Sexual Morality, and the Clinical Situation	p. 61
Ideals and Reality in the Austrian Universities, 1850-1914	p. 83
Freedom and Death: Goethe's Faust and the Greek War of Independence	p. 102
Experience Without a Subject: Walter Benjamin and the Novel	p. 121
Weaving Paintings: Religious and Social Origins of Vincent van Gogh's Pictorial Labor	p. 137
From Princely Collections to Public Museums: Toward a History of the German Art Museum	p. 169
Musical Historicism and the Transcendental Foundations of Community: Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and the "Christian-German" Cultural Politics of Frederick William IV	p. 183
Broken Vessels: Aestheticism and Modernity in Henry James and Walter Benjamin	p. 202
"Girls and Crisis": The Political Aesthetics of the Kickline in Weimar Berlin	p. 224
Gross David with the Swoln Cheek: An Essay on Self-Portraiture	p. 243
Facing the Patriarch in Early Davidian Painting	p. 308
Saying "I": Victor Cousin, Caroline Angebert, and the Politics of Selfhood in Nineteenth-Century France	p. 321
Freud's Use and Abuse of the Past	p. 336
The Subjectivity of Structure: Individuality and Its Contradictions in Levi-Strauss	p. 349
A Reflecting Story	p. 371
Fiction as Historical Evidence: A Dialogue in Paris, 1646	p. 378
The Ephemeral and the Eternal: Reflections on History	p. 389
Cultural History and Crisis: Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy	p. 404
Publications of Carl E. Schorske	p. 431
Notes	p. 437
Index	p. 517
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Rediscovering History

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