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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
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All those ghosts are now pressed between the pages of Richard cockett fine book.
Stephen Dubner · Freakonomics Radio · May 2024 Listen at 55:18 Why people recommend it
Vienna by Richard Cockett is a historical exploration of how the intellectual and cultural ferment of turn-of-the-century Vienna helped create the modern world. On Freakonomics Radio episode #586, titled How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?, Stephen Dubner praised the publication in the closing remarks of the broadcast, noting that all the intellectual ghosts of the era are deftly preserved between its pages. Furthermore, Dubner revealed during the same episode that the book served as the primary inspiration and push for him to finally travel to Vienna, utilizing the text as a thematic guide for the entire podcast episode. Both moments reflected the author's success in capturing the vibrant, cross-disciplinary exchanges among economists, philosophers, psychologists, and artists in fin-de-siècle Austria, demonstrating to listeners how the radical ideas forged in that specific European city continue to quietly shape modern institutions, intellectual debates, and contemporary daily life across the globe today.
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“the push to finally go to Vienna was provided by a new book called Vienna how the city of ideas created the modern world”
“all those ghosts are now pressed between the pages of Richard cockett fine book”
