Rethinking Vienna 1900

Fin-de-siècle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of this century´ s modern culture. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to question the paradigm ´´failure of liberalism´´. This volume reflects not only a whole range of the critiques but also offers alternative ways of understanding the subject, most notably through the concept of ´´critical modernism´´ and the integration of previously neglected aspects such as role of the marginality, the market and of the larger Central European and European context.