The essay will focalise on main topics of the literary, aesthetical and philosophical exploration of the so called "Wiener Moderne", that means on the erosion of the idea of certainty about the I (E. Mach) and of the wide territory of the Other. Working out parallelisms and differences between German and Austrian Modernism texts of Andrian, Hoffmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann and Schnitzler will be discussed giving space to Slavic components too as well as to intricate relationships between corporality, violence and urban, capitalistic contexts. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou