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" Vienna in the age of uncertainty : "
Deborah R. Coen.
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BL
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1010874
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b765244
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Coen, Deborah R.
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Vienna in the age of uncertainty : : science, liberalism, and private life /\ Deborah R. Coen.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xi, 380 pages) :: illustrations, map
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0226111784
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: 1281959391
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: 9780226111780
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: 9781281959393
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0226111725
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9780226111728
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-373) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : a scientific dynasty -- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s -- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s -- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age -- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s -- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle -- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900 -- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908 -- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918 -- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926 -- Conclusion : a family's legacy -- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree -- Bibliography -- Index.
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In the fin-de-siècle Vienna of Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and Ernst Mach, natural science was a vehicle for educating citizens, a source of moral authority for a battered liberalism, a resource for the birth of aesthetic modernism, and a leisure activity that shaped bourgeois domestic life. 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.
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Exner family.
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Exner family.
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Intellectuals-- Austria-- Vienna, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Science Technology.
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Intellectual life.
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Intellectuals.
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Vienna (Austria), Biography.
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Vienna (Austria), Intellectual life.
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Austria, Vienna.
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509.2/243613B
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DB844.E98C64 2007eb
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