Carl Emil Schorske
Carl Emil Schorske ( born March 15, 1915 in New York City ) is an American cultural historian. He is professor emeritus at Princeton University and was previously a professor at Harvard University.
Life
Focus of his later interests is the Central European intellectual and cultural history after the crisis of classical liberalism, especially the early 1900's and it made birth of the cultural and aesthetic modernism (especially the example of Wiener Moderne).
For his 1980 published comprehensive study fin-de- siècle Vienna ( German Wien. Spirit and Society in the Fin de Siècle ), he received the 1981 Pulitzer Prize.
In the same year appeared a 25 - year delay to the first publication in the Harvard University Press to be classics of the Party 's History spelling " The Great divide" ( the German Social Democracy 1905-1917 ), which was judged by former Chancellor Willy Brandt as "very meritorious ."
Schorske is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts. In 1981 he was MacArthur Fellow. Since 2012 he is honorary citizen of the city of Vienna.
Works
- Vienna. Spirit and Society in the Fin de Siècle. Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-10-073603-6
- The great divide. The German Social Democracy 1905-1917. Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88395-407-1
- An Austrian identity: Gustav Mahler. Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85452-350-5
- Thinking with history. Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85409-371-3