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Line 34: − − === 20th century Vienna and "exact thinking" === − − ''See also:'' [[Rational thinking]] and [[Logical reasoning]] and [[Analytical thinking]] − − The article ''The Untold Story of Vienna’s Global Influence'' indicates: − {{Cquote|In the early 20th century, learning in the city took place in major educational institutions such as the University of Vienna, but also in coffeehouses and from private tutors. The result was a commitment to “exact thinking” — a term Cockett attributes to the mathematician [[Kurt Gödel]], referring to the uniquely Viennese focus on methodological rigor and applying rational, [[Scientific method|scientific thinking]] and methods to other topics and fields. Viennese thought was also defined by the pursuit of interdisciplinary knowledge and the “liberating embrace of intellectual heterodoxy and [[political pluralism]],” Cockett writes. This attitude, he argues, is best personified by the philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach, who blended his disciplines and helped inspire a generation of scientists and writers alike... − − Cockett argues that many of these accomplishments would not have been possible without the methodological precision of the Viennese combined with their penchant for bringing together different disciplines to form something new. The field of consumer behavior in the United States, for example, blended psychology and psychoanalysis with market and economic research; Edward Bernays, an important figure in establishing that field, was a Viennese émigré (and, interestingly, the nephew of Sigmund Freud).<ref>[https://archive.ph/AjOBE#selection-3015.0-3015.503 ''The Untold Story of Vienna’s Global Influence'']</ref>}}
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As the empire's power waned in the first two decades of the 20th century, new developments in art centered in Vienna showed undercurrents of unease and dread. In painting, the [[Expressionist]] works of [[Egon Schiele]] and [[Gustav Klimt]] seemed to foreshadow the city's decline. In music, the Second Viennese School comprising [[Arnold Schoenberg]], [[Alban Berg]], and [[Anton Webern]] stretched tonal dissolution and thematic complexity all the way past its breaking point, and after the First World War tried to put it back together again under new rules, in much the same way that Vienna was searching for her relevance after the fall of the empire.
As the empire's power waned in the first two decades of the 20th century, new developments in art centered in Vienna showed undercurrents of unease and dread. In painting, the [[Expressionist]] works of [[Egon Schiele]] and [[Gustav Klimt]] seemed to foreshadow the city's decline. In music, the Second Viennese School comprising [[Arnold Schoenberg]], [[Alban Berg]], and [[Anton Webern]] stretched tonal dissolution and thematic complexity all the way past its breaking point, and after the First World War tried to put it back together again under new rules, in much the same way that Vienna was searching for her relevance after the fall of the empire.
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==Geography and Layout==