Vienna in the age of uncertainty [electronic resource] : science, liberalism, and private life /

Coen, Deborah R.

Vienna in the age of uncertainty science, liberalism, and private life / [electronic resource] : Deborah R. Coen. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xi, 380 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-373) and index.

Introduction : a scientific dynasty -- The mind set free : preparing a liberal society in the 1840s -- In the stream of the world : coming of age in the 1860s -- Memory images : models of reason in the liberal age -- The pigtail of the nineteenth century : determinism in the 1880s -- Afterlife : inheritance at the fin de siècle -- The education of the normal eye : visual learning circa 1900 -- Citizens of the most probable state : the politics of learning, 1908 -- Into the open : measuring uncertainty, 1900-1918 -- The irreplaceable eye : visual statistics, 1914-1926 -- Conclusion : a family's legacy -- Appendix : the Exner-Frisch family tree -- Bibliography -- Index.


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Exner family.


Intellectuals--Austria--Vienna--Biography.


Vienna (Austria)--Biography.
Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life.


Electronic books.

DB844.E98 / C64 2007eb

509.2/243613 B

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