Join us for a book talk with Richard Cockett, senior editor at The Economist, and author of VIENNA | How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World.
The event will be followed by an Austrian wine reception.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world, from California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens. In these and many other aspects of our world, Viennese influence can be detected. With the rise of fascism, many thinkers and visionaries, who had called Vienna home, dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett traces Vienna’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, and encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how Austria's capital significantly shaped the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Richard Cockett is a senior editor at The Economist and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Before joining The Economist he was a lecturer at the University of London in History. Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World is his eighth book.
The book talk will be followed by an Austrian wine reception.
Image © Richard Cockett