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Introduction: Post-enlightenment Modernism And The Experience Of Time -- Pt. I. Post-enlightenment Apprehensions. 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 -- Pt. 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. Ronald Schleifer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 233-267) And Index. Ronald Schleifer offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. His study analyzes the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that this transition expresses itself centrally in an altered conception of temporality. Addressing a variety of disciplines, this study examines the period's remarkable breaks with the past in literature, music, and the arts more generally, and engages wi

Author

Schleifer, Ronald, Ronald Schleifer

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521120159

Subjects

Science, History, Travel