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by mikhailfranco 641 days ago
The best single volume overview is this page-turner, which embraces Vienna and Paris, for math, science, philosophy, literature and art at the turn of the 20th century:

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

William R. Everdell

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244346.The_First_Moderns