A landmark book from one of the original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political & social disintegration so much of modern art & thought was born.

This edition contains:
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Politics & the psyche: Schnitzler & Hoffmannsthal
The Ringstrasse, its critics & the birth of urban modernism
Politics in a new key: an Austrian trio
Politics & patricide in Freud's Interpretation of dreams
Gustav Klimt: painting & the crisis of the liberal ego
The transformation of the garden
Explosion in the garden: Kokoschka & Schoenberg
Index