Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1930

by Ronald Schleifer

Book Overview

In Modernism and Time, Ronald Schleifer analyses the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in Western thought. Schleifer argues that this transition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century expresses itself centrally in an altered conception of temporality. He examines this period's remarkable breaks with the past in literature, music, and the arts more generally. Whereas Enlightenment thought sees...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120152
• ISBN13: 9780521120159
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"