Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern WorldHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the Wests intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein,

fables circulated in Timor’s robust oral tradition – lend themselves to a propulsive narrative power and

this book aims to make sense of the senseless

humanist values can best serve the vital goal of true equality

In this new edition of a classic book

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Peter Brooks points out in his introduction

His last piece of writing before his passing in 2007

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Named one of the Times Literary Supplement’s 100 Most Influential Books Since World War II

Someone Else’s Empire looks at the infrastructure of a US world order re-energised by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

whether in a landscape or a metropolis