Innovation and discovery in music, architecture, philosophy, physics, biology, psychology, economics and mathematics were all part of the remarkable fruits of Red Vienna’s open and transgressive culture. Photograph: David Payr/New York Times Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World Author : Richard Cockett ISBN-13 : 9780300266535 Publisher : Yale University Press Guideline Price : £25 Anyone embarking on reading Richard Cockett’s Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World, would be advised to take heed of ecologist William Rees’s warning about the nature of ideas. Rees cautions that human beings do not experience or act...