Political consequences of a dissolution of the romanticism (Viena and S. Zweig by the beginning of the 20 th century)

Abstract

The surprise of S. Zweig when the new barbarians (the Nazis) get the power can be very suggestive for our present. He could not understand that in the learned Germanic lands could make be born that germ against-culture and so atrocious. An analysis of the culture of their time in Vienna, of the writings of Zweig and of that society and the politics of that moment, can clarify the key: Zweig lived in an ivory tower, unaware to the workers suburbs. The vision of the world from the comfort can be corrupted to imagine that the world maybe is crashed. The view of Zweig was too elitist: insufficient, for that reason it could not be explained to it. Yesterday’s world collapsed before their eyes. A study of the relationship among the plastic arts, the philosophy, the society and the politics of the time helps to understand why many intellectuals they didn’t understand.