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Stephen Kern - Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age, Inbunden

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Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age

Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities

Av Stephen Kern

2270 kr

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In contrast to recent modernist studies that find evidence of modernism well before and after the period from 1890 to 1930, Stephen Kern concentrates on these key forty years to examine two fundamental ideas: origins and foundations. Analysing this period of exceptional cultural achievement in a wide range of fields including physics, cosmology, geology, biology, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, literature and art, Kern contrasts the achievements of the modernist period, from 1890 to 1930, against the background of the Victorian period. Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age surveys historically distinctive ideas about chronological origins as well as theoretical, ontological, functional and formal foundations and argues that modernists probed deeper into origins and foundations than the Victorians, especially in the physical and social sciences, and developed distinctive new foundational techniques in literature and art.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-30
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 644 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781399565882
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Stephen Kern is a Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 (1983); The Culture of Love: Victorians to Moderns (1992); A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought (2004); The Modernist Novel: A Critical Introduction (2011); and Modernism after the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification (2017).

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Yet another foundational book by Stephen Kern – this one actually about foundations: modernism’s unlikely devotion to the past, which here finally gets its due, thanks to Kern’s magisterial breadth of knowledge, true interdisciplinarity and timeless wisdom. Encyclopaedic and exciting, this book offers the most compelling new account of modernist culture as a whole.

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