1st Edition

A Cultural History of the Modern Age Volume 2, Baroque, Rococo and Enlightenment

By Egon Friedell Copyright 2009
492 Pages
by Routledge

492 Pages
by Routledge

490 Pages
by Routledge

This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age . A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi c mind: in nature-research, language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry,... Read more
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, BOOK II: BAROQUE AND ROCOCO, BOOK III: ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION, CHRONOLOGY, INDEX

Biography

Egon Friedell