This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the fl owering of Viennese culture between the two world wars,this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. Th e centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi [...]
Volume Three of A Cultural History of the Modern Age finishes a journey that begins with Descartes in the first volume and ends with Freud and the psychoanalytical movement in the third volume. Friedell describes the contents of these books as a series of performances, starting with the birth of the[...]