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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460676203321

Autore

Blum Mark E.

Titolo

The Austro-Marxists, 1890-1918 : a psychobiographical study / / Mark E. Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

0-8131-6216-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

335.4/092/2

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Soggetti

Communists - Austria

Communism and intellectuals - Austria - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. [211]-245.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: 1890-1914; 1 The Austro-Marxist Idea; 2 Karl Renner's Search for a Home; 3 Renner and the Interpretation of the State; 4 The Party as Family for Otto Bauer; 5 Bauer's Cultural Dialectics; 6 Max Adler, the Eternal Youth; 7 Max Adler, the Incomplete Theoretician; 8 The Party as Father for Friedrich Adler; 9 Friedrich Adler: From Physics to Marxism; PART TWO: 1914-1918; 10 Karl Renner as German Chauvinist; 11 Otto Bauer: Success through Equivocation; 12 Max Adler: Will and Idea in Wartime

13 Friedrich Adler Encounters His FateConclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

In the brilliant world of Vienna at the turn of the century four men -- Karl Renner, Otto Bauer, Max Adler, and Friedrich Adler -- sought to develop political and economic resolutions to the racial and cultural tensions that were beginning to strain the bonds of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this highly original study of these Austro-Marxists, Mark E. Blum uses the insights of depth psychology to trace the roots of their political philosophy in their family and social backgrounds.  The Austro-Marxists 1890--1918 is the first book to



offer a systematic examination of the thought and milieu of