At least since the Enlightenment, Austrian intellectuals have used Europe’s hegemonic cultures as their political and cultural reference points. The Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary all conditioned regional understanding of a European cultural space outside today’s dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Today’s scholars in Anglo-American, German, and Central European studies, however, may forget that Austria’s imperial-colonial era ended in 1918 rather than 1945; its status as a nation-state integrated into contemporary European politics was consolidated only after 1989, when its forced neutrality was lifted.
The case studies presented here trace an Austrian tradition of thinking about Europe between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. The cultural project of many intellectuals in Vienna lies outside of the norm-referenced logicisms of the Enlightenment project, stressing a more embodied, communitarian, and humane image of the state and its citizens. Belying the dominant image of the public sphere, they used the theater and the essay as mass media to foster public discussions about contemporaneous social and political issues, and referenced their performance to Europe, not just to an imagined nation-state (and its supposed hegemonies based on ethnic nationalism, genre, or class).
From Joseph von Sonnenfels through Grillparzer, Nestroy, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Handke and their contemporaries, this volume documents a persistent cultural identity politics that has largely disappeared from view. These authors provide visions of how imperial cultures might modernize and capitalize on their cultural positions and traditions, without falling prey to all the perils of global capital and global rationalization.

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New Directions in German Studies 2
Volumes in the series 3
Title 4
Copyright 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 8
Introduction: Austria as a Challenge to Europe 12
The persistence of Mitteleuropa in memory (but not in Austria) 19
Austria’s Europe of the imagination: A public space en procès 29
Part 1: An Austrian Imperial Europe 34
1 Letters to the Ruling Class: The Public Spaces of Enlightenment 38
The sources and their publics 41
Translations and “German national culture” 50
National theaters and the creation of new public spaces 57
The Enlightenments of Europe 68
2 Extending Europe’s Enlightenment: Why Grillparzer Resists Weimar 72
The poet, the critic, the scholar: Redefining public enlightenment 74
Drama as public deliberation 84
The drama of politics: Stories in public spaces 91
Culture beyond the nation-state 95
3 Revolution from the Prompter’s Box: Rewriting Public Dreams of Political Morality 100
An eighteenth-century comedy tradition 104
Grillparzer: Changing the body politic 115
Nestroy: The legitimacy of class structures 127
Public change, historical continuity 136
4 Eclipses, Floods, and Biedermeier Catastrophes: Public Spaces in extremis 140
Genre painting and critical reading 143
The eclipse and the butterflies: Dies irae? 151
Revolution in Vienna 163
Speaking politically in an era of fragmentation 170
Part 2: At the Margins of Europe, In the Heart of Europe 174
5 Hofmannsthal’s European Revolution: Recapturing a Space for Common Culture 178
Lord Chandos and Bacon 181
The cosmopolitanism of the lost nation 186
Toward a revolutionary conservatism: The modern European 199
6 Schnitzler and the Space of Public Discourse: The Politics of Decadence in fin de siècle Vienna 208
The legacy of liberalism: Life in fin de siècle Vienna 213
Puppets and pantomimes: Beyond the traditions 225
Traditions as radical modernism 239
7 Kasperl and the Wiener Gruppe: artmann, Bayer, and Handke 244
From the Wiener Gruppe to Forum Stadtpark: The avant-garde in Austria 246
Kasperl’s new politics 252
Electric Kasperl: Self-immolating literature succumbs to the public 258
The late blooming Kasperl: Handke performs tradition 264
Kasperl in the disorder of Europe 271
8 A New Balkan Challenge: The Reemergence of Austria’s Europe 274
Habsburg redux: Where cultural politics and politics converge 276
Handke: Cosmopolitan flâneur of Europe 284
The rejoinder: Milo Dor 292
Europe as a state (of mind) 298
Afterword: Austria as Europe? The Art and Science of the Post-National Culture 302
Bibliography 310
Index of Names 332

A sweeping account and re-evaluation of Austrian identity, via literature, culture and history, from the Enlightenment to the present. Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represented a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, which mixes various nationalities, ethnicities, and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. Challenging standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own public as European. Working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West, Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism

"Vienna's Dreams of Europe argues for a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its precursor states-the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire, and Austria Hungary-represent a globalized European cultural space outside the dominant paradigm of nationalist colonialism. Austrian writers today confront reunited Europe in full acknowledgment of Austro-Hungary's multicultural heritage, a culture mixing various nationalities, ethnicities and cultural forms, including ancestors from the Balkans and beyond. To challenge standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, Vienna's Dreams of Europe introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own publics as European. Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theorist-critics of the hegemonic West"-- Provided by publisher

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Introduction --
Chapter 1: Letters to the Ruling Class: Enlightening Two National Cultures --
Chapter 2: Classicism and the Tyranny of the Moderns: How Grillparzer Resists Weimar --
Chapter 3: Revolution from the Prompter's Box: Grillparzer and Nestroy in Vienna --
Chapter 4: Eclipses, Floods, and Other Biedermeier Catastrophes: The theatrum mundi of Revolution --
Chapter 5: Hofmannsthal's European Revolution: The Space of Common Culture --
Chapter 6: Schnitzer and the Space of Public Discourse in Fin de siècle Vienna --
Chapter 7: The Persistence of Kasperl in Memory: Artmann, Bayer and Handke --
Chapter 8: Lost Maps, Lost Europe?: "The Balkans Begin at the Gürtel" --
Chapter 9: Austria's Millennial Europe: The Vanishing of Mitteleuropa --
Afterword: Austria as Europe?: Post-National Cultural Studies --
Bibliography --
Index.

2015-12-23