Modernity and Crises of Identity: Culture and Society in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.

Introduction. Part I: Destruction and Reconstruction of Identity. . 1. Reflections on Viennese Modernity. 2. Individualism, Solitude and Identity Crisis. 3. The Mystic and the Genius. 4. Narcissus. Part II: Crises of Masculine Identity. 5. Weininger, Schreber, Hofmannsthal. 6. The Feminine at Work in (Post)Modernity. 7. Law of the Father, Law of the Mother, and Otto Gross. 8. Electra, Antigone and Ariadne. Part III: Masculine--Feminine--Jew. 9. A Triangle of the Times. 10. The Assimilated Jews of Vienna. 11. Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl, I: in the a New Ghettoa . 12. Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl, II: Two Modern Moses. 13. Karl Kraus: Desperately Seeking a Jewish Identity. 14. The a Cultural Zionisma of Richard Beer--Hofmann Conclusion:. The (Post)Modern Indeterminacy of Identity. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.