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

Everdell, William R.

Univ of Chicago Pr（1997/05発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 501 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780226224800
DDC分類 190.904

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1997. Shows how the idea of 'modernity' arose before the First World War by telling the stories of heroes such as T. S. Elliot, Max Planck, and Georges Seurat.

Full Description

In the early 1870s mathematicians like Cantor and Dedekind discovered the set and divided the mathematical continuum; in 1886, Georges Seurat debuted his visionary masterpiece, "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"; by the end of 1900, Hugo De Vries had discovered the gene, Max Planck had laid claim to the quantum, and Sigmund Freud had laid bare the unconscious workings of dreams. Modernism was dawning. William Everdell constructs in this volume a history of nascent modernism - narrating portraits of genius, profiling intellectual breakthroughs, and evoking the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St Louis and St Petersburg. He follows Picasso to Cabaret des Assassins, discourses with Ernst Mach on the contingency of scientific law, and takes in the riotous premiere of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

Acknowledgments 1. IntroductionIsn't 2. The Century Ends in Vienna: Modernism's Time Lost, 1899 3. Georg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, and Gottlob Frege: What Is a Number, 1872-1883 4. Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical Gases, Entropy, and the Direction of Time, 1872-1877 5. Georges Seurat: Divisionism, Cloisonnism, and Chronophotography, 1885 6. Whitman, Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue: Poems without Meter, 1886 7. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: The Atoms of Brain, 1889 8. Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau: Inventing the Concentration Camp, 1896 9. Sigmund Freud: Time Repressed and Ever-Present, 1899 10. The Century Begins in Paris: Modernism on the Verge, 1900 11. Hugo de Vries and Max Planck: The Gene and the Quantum, 1900 12. Bertrand Russell and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology, Number, and the Fall of Logic, 1901 13. Edwin S. Porter: Parts at Sixteen per Second, 1903 14. Meet Me in Saint Louis: Modernism Comes to Middle America, 1904 15. Albert Einstein: The Space-Time Interval and the Quantum of Light, 1905 16. Pablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906-1907 17. August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream, 1907 18. Arnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908 19. James Joyce: The Novel Goes to Pieces, 1909-1910 20. Vassily Kandisky: Art with No Object, 1911-1912 21. Annus Mirabilis: Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1913 22. Discontinuous Epilogues: Heisenberg and Bohr, Godel and Turing, Merce Cunningham and Michael Foucault Notes Select Bibliography Index