
Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
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Narrated by:
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Gareth Richards
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Richard Cockett
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna.
The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact.
Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
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Interesting but dry account, terrible narration
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Sadly: Worst narrator ever — irritating pacing and inexcusable pronunciation of German words. Totally unacceptable
Fascinating book! HORRIBLE narration
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Great information about the influence of the Austrian diaspora on the time between WWI and WWII and beyond
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Excellent book. Thorough and well- planned. Terrible narration.
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worst narration ever. I’d like my money back.
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History and knowledge, the scholarship and depth of this was quite good very good. In fact, however you probably can see that there are other criticisms of the narration that even this non-German speaker, though having traveled and Red, Vietnam and German literature I know that this man is terribly challenged and his pronunciation of things such as gangsta , etc. he also sometimes inconsistently mispronounces things. He was not a good choice. The publisher should look at having it narrated again by someone else.
Great book, not so good (mis)pronunciations
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Impossible to listen to
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Inadequate reader!
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The publisher(s), however should hang their heads in shame over totally failing to have the narrator pronounce words he’s clearly unfamiliar with, ruining much of the story and rendering other parts nearly incomprehensible. California’s Esalen, as just one example, becomes Ass-Lon! Good author, horrible publisher. Audible should be ashamed to release such a poor production of a good work. I’m glad I listed. But am happy it’s over!
The Impact of Red Vienna on our World
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Fascinating book, extremely poor narration
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