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

Coen, Deborah R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226111733 ISBN 13: 9780226111735

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

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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 Schrödinger, 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.

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Deborah R. Coen is assistant professor of history at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226111733
• ISBN 13: 9780226111735
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
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