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Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity. One of the most powerful critiques of the retreat into fantasy was that of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early career in Vienna has helped frame debates about ethical and aesthetic values in culture. In Wittgenstein''s Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein''s Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein''s thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture.
Although Wittgenstein is the central figure in this volume, Janik places considerable emphasis on other influential figures, both Viennese and non-Viennese, in order to break down some of the persistent stereotypes about the philosopher and his surrounding culture, especially the myths of "carefree" Vienna and Wittgenstein the positivist. The persistence of these myths, in Janik''s view, stems in part from the inability of many historians to differentiate past from present in the evaluation of intellectual currents. Janik reviews a number of figures overlooked in assessing Wittgenstein: Otto Weininger, Kraus, Schoenberg, Nietzsche, Wagner, Ibsen, Offenbach, and Georg Trakl. All of these, Janik demonstrates, are absolutely necessary to understand what was at stake in the debates on aestheticism and the critique of a modern culture.
Wittgenstein''s efforts to recognize the limits of thought and language and thus to be fair to science, religion, and art account for his place of honor among critical modernists. These essays elucidate Wittgenstein''s perspective on our culture.
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Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in music, art, science, and philosophy that would help to define modernity. One of the most powerful critiques of the retreat into fantasy was that of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose early career in Vienna has helped frame debates about ethical and aesthetic values in culture. In Wittgenstein''s Vienna Revisited Allan Janik expands upon his work Wittgenstein''s Vienna (co-authored with Stephen Toulmin) to amplify a number of significant points concerning the genesis of Wittgenstein''s thought, the nature of Viennese culture, and criticism of contemporary culture.
Although Wittgenstein is the central figure in this volume, Janik places considerable emphasis on other influential figures, both Viennese and non-Viennese, in order to break down some of the persistent stereotypes about the philosopher and his surrounding culture, especially the myths of "carefree" Vienna and Wittgenstein the positivist. The persistence of these myths, in Janik''s view, stems in part from the inability of many historians to differentiate past from present in the evaluation of intellectual currents. Janik reviews a number of figures overlooked in assessing Wittgenstein: Otto Weininger, Kraus, Schoenberg, Nietzsche, Wagner, Ibsen, Offenbach, and Georg Trakl. All of these, Janik demonstrates, are absolutely necessary to understand what was at stake in the debates on aestheticism and the critique of a modern culture.
Wittgenstein''s efforts to recognize the limits of thought and language and thus to be fair to science, religion, and art account for his place of honor among critical modernists. These essays elucidate Wittgenstein''s perspective on our culture.
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Otto Weininger (1880-1903) is the most controversial figure to emerge from fin de siècle Vienna. The son of a Jewish goldsmith, he studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna and spoke six languages by the time he was 21. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1902, he converted to Christianity and, in 1903, he published his book Sex and Character—a groundbreaking and highly provocative study that would come to influence Adolf Hitler, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and James Joyce, among others. As troubled as he was brilliant, Weininger took his own life on October 3, 1903, leaving behind a small number of works, an array of challenging ideas, and many unanswered questions.
In Hitler’s Favorite Jew, Professor Allan Janik draws upon a half-century of research to explore the life and legacy of Otto Weininger, and to illuminate his outsized impact on some of the greatest thinkers and the greatest monster of the twentieth century. Janik explains how Weininger came to write his bizarre book featuring outrageous claims about women and Jews, and argues that, contrary to the received wisdom, Weininger’s true goal was progressive and humanistic.
With its deep insights into both Weininger the man and Viennese intellectual life at the turn of the century, Hitler’s Favorite Jew offers a rich and multifaceted portrait that challenges our ideas about sexuality, the nature of anti-Semitism, and the puzzle of human identity.
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The First Ten Years är en ambitiös sammanställning av de många uppmärksammade symposier, konferenser, konserter, litterära samtal, teatergästspel, samtal, läsningar, utställningar, böcker och mycket mera som kulturinstitutionen Judisk Kultur i Sverige har initierat och genomfört under de första tio åren. Boken innehåller texter från de internationella symposier som genomförts kring "Jewish Cities", som Berlin, New York, Wien och Thessaloniki. Därtill kommer en generös sammanställning av bilder från alla möten under åren, de många internationella gästerna som kommit till Sverige. Dessa inkluderar världsledande musiker, kompositörer och dirigenter. Nobelprisförfattare, framstående intellektuella och filmskapare. Därtill komiker, skådespelare, sångare, poeter och artister.
Boken är redigerad av Lizzie Oved Scheja och Daniel Pedersen.
Bland författarna återfinns Steven Beller, Allan Janik, Fredric Bedoire, Christian Witt-Dörring, Eric Kandel, Stefanie Halpern, Jody Rosen, Eddy Portnoy, Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer, David Denby, Adam Gopnik, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Sandee Brawarsky, Tony Michels, Jackie Jakubowski, Amos Elon, Graeme Gilloch, Jay Howard Geller, Devin E. Naar and Anders Hammarlund
Med texter av Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Moses Mendelssohn, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Franz Hessel, Siegfrid Kracauer och Else Lasker-Schüler.
Boken är rikligt illustrerad med hundratals färgfotografier.