Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

by Deborah R. Coen

Book Overview

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 Schr dinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna's women's movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226111733
• ISBN13: 9780226111735
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"