Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty
Science, Liberalism, and Private Life
352 pages, 22 halftones 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $45.00
ISBN: 9780226111728
Published August 2007
List of Illustrations Introduction: A Scientific Dynasty
1 The Mind Set Free: Preparing a Liberal Society in the 1840s 2 In the Stream of the World: Coming of Age in the 1860s 3 Memory Images: Models of Reason in the Liberal Age 4 The Pigtail of the Nineteenth Century: Determinism in the 1880s 5 Afterlife: Inheritance at the Fin de Siècle 6 The Education of the Normal Eye: Visual Learning circa 1900 7 Citizens of the Most Probable State: The Politics of Learning, 1908 8 Into the Open: Measuring Uncertainty, 1900–1914 9 The Irreplaceable Eye: Visual Statistics, 1914–1926 Conclusion: A Family’s Legacy Appendix: The Exner-Frisch Family Tree Bibliography Index
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