Austrian Dimension in German Intellectual History

Tracing Austrian intellectual life from Maria Theresa to Hitler''s annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia, this innovative book offers a precise and engaging account of Austrian intellectual history since the Enlightenment.

Here, David S. Luft begins by locating his narrative in the region known as Cisleithanian Austria, the area to the west of the Leitha River that was the basis for the modern ...