Reviews for Die Sozialreformerischen Ideen Von Josef Popper-Lynkeus (1838-1921): Im Zusammenhang Mit Allgemeinen Reformbestrebungen Des Wiener Burgertums Um Die Jahrhundertwende

The average rating for Die Sozialreformerischen Ideen Von Josef Popper-Lynkeus (1838-1921): Im Zusammenhang Mit Allgemeinen Reformbestrebungen Des Wiener Burgertums Um Die Jahrhundertwende based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-30 00:00:00 Carmen Gauvreau This is another book that I don't know enough about the source material to award it 5 stars. It's comprehensive, although I wish it would spend less time excusing the early efforts of literature in this country and just focus on its merits or lack thereof. Some great essays by people who were in the process of becoming luminaries of the literature they were then chronicling. Illuminates a side of our history that many are unaware of.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-07-24 00:00:00 Stacy R Barton Mainly an interesting period piece, but always good to know where hackneyed phrases come from, particularly if, as in this case, they get misused: Australia is a lucky country, it turns out, because even though our politicians and other 'leadership' types are entirely incompetent, the state somehow struggles on. Horne writes well, and he's funny, but it's unclear to me whether his fundamental argument was true: was Australia really a country being held back by a lack of ambition and gusto at the highest levels? Was Australia really being held back at all? In cultural terms, yes, but keep in mind that when Horne published this, White had just published Voss and Riders in the Chariot, modernist art was getting going, and Peter Sculthorpe was about to publish Sun Music I. So things were really on the upswing. Horne's book itself might have been a part of that. On the downside, it's very irritating to read a book this long that avoids proper nouns almost entirely. I say White had just published Voss, and Horne does mention that novel--but not in the section on literature. There are few to no names at all, regardless of the context. So one doesn't really learn much about who or what Horne thought was to blame, or who was helping, or even that there were people in Australia in the late '50s and early '60s at all. More amusingly, he says the Young Liberals were energetic, while the other political parties were totally moribund. Somewhere, Whitlam is laughing.