Ronald Schleifer, Schleifer Ronald

Modernism and Time

The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880 1930

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120159
• ISBN-10: 0521120152
• Artikelnr.: 26572452

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.