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This paper is an attempt to understand the characteristic features in Mahler’s music by focusing attention to social and cultural aspects in his works, as an extension to the common methodology that has been employed by examining the internal logic concerning the musical style and the related program to his works. Herein, I tried to explain why Mahler had a different view in contrast to other contemporary artists by analyzing the characteristics of his music in the aspect of the critique of the limits of language in the contexts of politics, society, and culture in la fin de siècle Vienna. To this end, the 1st movement of Symphony No. 7 was analyzed, which revealed his efforts to express 1) the value contradiction while keeping the most of the traditional foundation, 2) the value inversion caused by the inconsistencies between the truth and the reality of the life in fin de siècle Vienna by focusing on the second parameter, tone, rather than on the first parameter, melody or harmony, etc. and 3) irony via diverse musical manipulation.