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

Deborah R. Coen

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Description:"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 PrizeOCowinning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin SchrAdinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of ViennaOCOs womenOCOs 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 familyOCOs 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.a"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. To get started finding Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 394

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226111784

Description: "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 PrizeOCowinning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin SchrAdinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of ViennaOCOs womenOCOs 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 familyOCOs 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.a"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life. To get started finding Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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