NOTE: * = first priority read
WEEK 1: 29 August
THURS Introduction: The Problem of Defining "Austrian" Intellectual History
1. Perspectives: What is "Austrian," "Central European" History, and how does that figure into intellectual history?
WEEK 2: 3, 5 September
TUES Histories of the Region: Templates
*Written Assignment 1 due: read directions before you read texts!
Kann, History of the Habsburg Empire, 243-564
Sked, Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 187-272
Taylor, Struggle for Mastery in Europe
Sugar, ed., A History of Hungary, 174-266
THURS Where is the Region?: Debates
*HABSBURG. "What is Central Europe?"
Arens, "Central Europe and the Nationalist Paradigm
*Oral Assignment 1: see directions
2. Causes and the Social Fabric: Demagogues, Nationalisms, Anti-Semitism
WEEK 3: 10, 12 September
THURS Politics, from Red Vienna and Lueger to Schönerer
*Schorske, "Politics in a New Key," FdSV, 116-180
*Albert Fuchs, "Katholizismus," 43-82
Grassl and Smith, eds., Austrian Economics
-Wolfgang Grassl, "Markers and Morality: Austrian Perspectives on the Economic Approach to Human Behavior," 139-181
Janik & Toulmin, "Habsburg Vienna," WV, 33-66G
WEEK 4: 17, 19 September
THURS Law and Economics
*Johnston, "Economists as Bureaucrats," 76-87
*---, "Legal Theorists," 88-98
*Bottomore and Goode, eds. Austro-Marxism, 84-101, 204-52, 267-76
Grassl and Smith, eds., Austrian Economics
-Barry Smith, "Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy," 1-36
-Reinhard Fabian and Peter M. Simons, "The Second Austrian School of Value Theory," 37-101 (HAS BIOS)
*Précis due: either fiction or an Austro-Marxist text
WEEK 5: 24, 26 September
THURS *Qualtinger and Merz, "Der Herr Karl"
*NOTE: You will be seeing video today -- discuss next week
WEEK 6: 1, 3 October
THURS Otto von Habsburg, Haider, and Paneuropa
*Hella Pick, Guilty Victim, pick either early post-war to Kreisky, or later (first or second 100 pages)
Otto von Habsburg, Zurück zur Mitte / Return to the Center
Qualtinger and Merz, "Der Herr Karl"
WEEK 7: 8, 11 October
3. Institutions: Innovations in Science, Human and Social Sciences
WEEK 8: 15, 17 October
THURS Historicism: From Baroque Idea to Protofascism
*Hugo von Hofmannsthal. "Das Schrifttum als geistiger Raum der Nation" and "Zu Josef Nadler's 'Literaturgeschichte.'"
*Johnston, "Cultural Criticism," in Nyíri, ed., Austrian Philosophy, 31-42
*Josef Nadler, Literaturgeschichte (compare same sections of 1912 and 1938)
---, "Deutschland und Österreich im Wechselspiel der deutschen Dichtung"
J. W. Nagl, Deutsch-Österreichische Literaturgeschichte (excerpts)
Johnston, "From Baroque to Biedermeier," 11-29
Steinberg, The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival
*Précis due: Freud or Hofmannsthal
4. Schools of Thought
WEEK 9: 22, 24 October
THURSArchitecture
*Otto Wagner, Die Baukunst unserer Zeit.
*Adplf Loos, Ornament and Crime (various)
Janik & Toulmin, "Culture and Critique," WV, 92-119
*Précis due: Schorske, Loos, or Wagner
WEEK 10: 29, 31 October
THURS GO TO THE SCMLA!!
WEEK 11: 5, 7 November
THURS The Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein, and the Legacy of Sprachphilosophie
Janik & Toulmin, Wittgenstein's Vienna, Introduction , 13-32, 167-238
*Hubert Schleichert, ed., Logischer Empirismus, excerpts (one text in English)
*Ludwig Wittgenstein, Blue and Brown Books, 77-125
Background: Kraft, The Vienna Circle, passim
---, Der Wiener Kreis, passim
5. Icons: Aestheticism and Innovation
WEEK 12: 12, 14 November
THURS Volksstück
*Nestroy, The Talisman / Der Talisman
Urbach, Die Wiener Volkskömodie
Yates, Theatre in Vienna
*Précis due: Nestroy, Austro-Marxist, or compare two museum things
WEEK 13: 19, 21 November
THURS Oppositional Literature in the Cold War
*Handke, Kaspar
---, Publikumsbeschimpfung (Offending the Audience)
*Rühm, Die Wiener Gruppe (excerpts)
*Written Assignment 4 due
WEEK 14: 26 November
THURS THANKSGIVING!
WEEK 15: 3, 5 December
THURS Final discussions
Written Assignment 5 Due: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 7 pm - NO OPTIONS