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

by Egon Friedell

Book Overview

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, and religion. All systems of thought produced in this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412810248
• ISBN13: 9781412810241
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"