Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty - Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Informationen zum Autor Deborah R. Coen is assistant professor of history at Barnard College! Columbia University. Klappentext "Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family! whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch! the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrodinger! artists of the Vienna Secession! and a leader of Vienna's women's movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into the rise of the Third Reich! Deborah R. Coen demonstrates the interdependence of the family's scientific and domestic lives! exploring the ways in which public notions of rationality! objectivity! and autonomy were formed in the private sphere. "Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty "presents the story of the Exners as a microcosm of the larger achievements and tragedies of Austrian political and scientific life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung Traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family! whose members included Nobel Prize - winning biologist Karl Frisch! the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrodinger! artists of the Vienna Secession! and a leader of Vienna's women's movement.

Product details

• Authors: Deborah R. Coen, COEN DEBORAH R, Coen Deborah R.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780226111735
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11173-5
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); austria, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science