Ronald Schleifer

Modernism and Time

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780521661249
• ISBN-10: 0521661242
• Artikelnr.: 21339770

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Post-Enlightenment modernism and the experience of time; Part
I. Post-Enlightenment Apprehension: 1. The Enlightenment, abundance, and
postmodernity; 2. Temporal allegories: George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and
the redemption of time; 3. The second industrial revolution: history,
knowledge, and subjectivity; Part II. Logics of Abundance: 4. The natural
history of time: mathematics and meaning in Einstein and Russell; 5.
Analogy and example: Heisenberg, linguistic negation, and the language of
quantum physics; 6. The global aesthetics of genre: Mikhail Bakhtin and the
borders of modernity.