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Where Personal Fate Turns to Public Affair: Homosexual Scandal and Social Order in Vienna, 1900–1910

Where Personal Fate Turns to Public Affair: Homosexual Scandal and Social Order in Vienna, 1900–1910 Beginning in September, 1902, Karl Kraus turned his critical vision and poison pen toward what he saw as a misguided encroachment on private matters by the public organs of the state and the press. He saw it as more of an attack than an encroachment—he decried a campaign, conducted with “sword and fi re,” to battle “immorality,” a charge he saw hailing from diverse if linked quarters from legislature to judiciary to the daily newspaper of record. Th e whole off ensive, Kraus maintained, originated in a “grandiose misunderstanding,” a slip, a logical or even linguistic fallacy: instead of protecting society from the off ense of public indecency, the crusaders inverted their task when they sought to provoke public indignation in response to private morality. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Where Personal Fate Turns to Public Affair: Homosexual Scandal and Social Order in Vienna, 1900–1910

Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 38: 10 – Jan 18, 2010
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
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Beginning in September, 1902, Karl Kraus turned his critical vision and poison pen toward what he saw as a misguided encroachment on private matters by the public organs of the state and the press. He saw it as more of an attack than an encroachment—he decried a campaign, conducted with “sword and fi re,” to battle “immorality,” a charge he saw hailing from diverse if linked quarters from legislature to judiciary to the daily newspaper of record. Th e whole off ensive, Kraus maintained, originated in a “grandiose misunderstanding,” a slip, a logical or even linguistic fallacy: instead of protecting society from the off ense of public indecency, the crusaders inverted their task when they sought to provoke public indignation in response to private morality.

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Austrian History Yearbook – Cambridge University Press

Published: Jan 18, 2010

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