Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist: Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna

by Edward Timms

Book Overview

A fascinating study of the life and work of Karl Kraus, the Austrian satirist whose critiques of the mass media, the military-industrial complex, and technology running out of control have earned him a following fifty years after his death. Drawing on unfamiliar sources, Edward Timms analyzes Kraus's involvement in fundamental ideological issues of his time, such as psychoanalysis, social morality, design and architecture, the role of the artist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300044836
• ISBN13: 9780300044836
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"