This is the first book in any language to digest what foreign writers have had to say about the cities of Northern Italy. French, German, and English writers, adoring Italy, have always lavished praise upon it, yet no one has ever compared what they said about the places they visited. Now, here is presented the best insights of major and minor writers since 1800, the time of the French occupation of Italy when the new crop of travelers arrived to take in the sights, smells, and tastes of this land.
Passages from familiar writers are collated, but this book emphasizes those writers who are less familiar, showing that much of the finest writing about Italy comes from authors now totally forgotten. Not only are the sources of the book original, but each discussion sheds new light on the cities described. To look at Verona, for example, in the light of the German presence there is as fresh as to look at Parma in the light of French responses to Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma. A new vision of the cultural history of each city emerges. The history of taste also gets its due. The book assembles reactions to monuments as varied as The Last Supper, Donatello's bronzes in Padua, and the mosaics of Ravenna.

In Search of Italy

Literature & Fiction

Johnston, William M.

Literary

Penn State University Press

Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. Part Three explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism. Interacting with positivistic science, this reverence for the ephemeral inspired such pioneers ad Mach, Wittgenstein, Buber, and Freud. Part Four describes the vision of an ordered cosmos which flourished among Germans in Bohemia. Their philosophers cultivated a Leibnizian faith whose eventual collapse haunted Kafka and Mahler. Part Five explains how in Hungary wishful thinking reinforced a political activism rare elsewhere in Habsburg domains. Engage intellectuals like Lukacs and Mannheim systematized the sociology of knowledge, while two other Hungarians, Herzel and Nordau, initiated political Zionism. Part Six investigates certain attributes that have permeated Austrian thought, such as hostility to technology and delight in polar opposites.

The Austrian mind;: An intellectual and social history, 1848-1938

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

University of California Press

included biographical sketches together with bibliographies for nearly every major figue discussed

The Austrian Mind; An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938

Ancient Civilizations

Univ. Of California Pr.

Recent Reference Books in Religion summarizes and evaluates more than three hundred contemporary reference works in religion that have been published in English, French and German. Here researchers and students of religion will find an engaging and even-handed guide to the research tools they need. Readers will find a helpful typology of reference works introduced and gain a renewed appreciation of their contribution to learning. Outstanding articles and contributors are highlighted, strengths and weaknesses are carefully noted and weighed, and readers are directed to volumes whose strengths complement the weaknesses of others. Each entry includes full bibliographic details, and cross-referencing is used where appropriate.

Recent Reference Books in Religion: A Guide for Students, Scholars, Researchers, Buyers & Readers

Religion & Spirituality

Intervarsity Pr

Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today

In the twentieth century, celebrations of historical anniversaries abounded. There was the bicentennial of the French Revolution, the 150th anniversary of photography, Bach’s 300th anniversary, and the 200th anniversary of the American Constitution, to name just a few. Every year hundreds of anniversaries still attract media attention and government investment in ever greater degrees. Deploying an astonishing array of insights, Celebrations explores the causes and consequences of this major phenomenon of our time.  As Johnston shows, anniversaries fulfill a number of needs. They provide the kind of experience of regularity across a lifetime that the weekly cycle supplies in daily life. The use of anniversaries for political ends emerged during the French Revolution and expanded to promote nationalism during the nineteenth century, although there are differences in how they are used. Europeans tend to celebrate cultural heroes, while Americans tend to celebrate events. Entire nations exploit anniversaries of founding events in order to promote national identity. Commercially, there are whole industries built around commemoration, and they provide intellectuals an opportunity to take center stage.  Using methods of cultural history, sociology, and religious studies, Johnston shows how the cult of anniversaries reflects postmodern concerns. It fills a void left by the disappearance of ideologies and avant-gardes. In an era when there is little consensus about styles or methods, anniversaries allow intellectuals, businesses, and governments to acknowledge and celebrate every nuance of opinion. By suggesting ways to use anniversaries more creatively, this book offers a broad range of insights.

Routledge

Encyclopedia of Monasticism

Taylor&Francis

Österreichische Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte: Gesellschaft und Ideen im Donauraum 1848 bis 1938

Boehlau Verlag

BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION dust jacket hardcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601676 Seit eh und je ist der Österreicher sich selber ein Rätsel gewesen. Das neue große Buch von William M. Johnston, Autor des Klassikers 'Österreichische Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte', untersucht die Eigenart des Österreichertums anhand bekannter wie auch unbekannterTexte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts und liefert eine spannende Neuinterpretation der österreichischen Identität. Das Buch ist nicht nur eine Geistesgeschichte der Debatten um einen österreichischen Habitus, sondern auch eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage, 'Was war und ist österreichisch ' Anhand der Kulturgeschichte, Literatur, Soziologie, aber auch an Kriegspropaganda und Landschaftskunde wird ein Ensemble langfristiger österreichischer Spezifika sichtbar gemacht. Das Buch enthält radikale Neuinterpretationen der Hauptfiguren der österreichischen Literatur wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr, Rainer Maria Rilke und Robert Musil. Wer die Frage stellt ' Was heißt Österreich', wird in diesem Buch unerhörte Antworten bekommen. 394 pp. Deutsch. Since time immemorial and the Austrians ever has been around a mystery itself. The new great book by William M. Johnston, author of the classic 'Austrian cultural and intellectual history', examines the nature of Österreichertums basis of known as well as unknown texts of the twentieth century and provides an exciting reinterpretation of Austrian identity. The book is not only a spiritual history of debates about an Austrian habitus, but also a confrontation with the question, 'What was and is the Austrian' On the basis of cultural history, literature, sociology, as well as to war propaganda and landscape customer an ensemble of long-term Austrian spec We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Der Österreichische Mensch: Kulturgeschichte Der Eigenart Österreichs (Studien Zu Politik Und Verwaltung) (German Edition)

Europe

Bohlau Verlag

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