Everdell, William R.
The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997.
xi, 501 pages ; 23 cm
"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. Throughout the worlds of art and ideas, of science and philosophy, Modernism was dawning, and with it a new mode of conceptualization." "With astounding range and scholarly command, William Everdell constructs a lively and accessible history of nascent Modernism - narrating portraits of genius, profiling intellectual breakthroughs, and richly evoking the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. He follows Picasso to the 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." "But how are we to define the inception of an era predicated upon such far-flung and radically disparate innovations? Everdell is careful not to insist on the creative interrelation of these events. Instead, what for him unites such germinally modernist achievements is a profound conceptual insight: that the objects of our knowledge are - contrary to the evolutionary seamlessness of nineteenth-century thought - discrete, atomistic, and discontinuous. The gray matter was found to be made out of neurons, poems out of disjunctive images, and paintings out of dots of color, all by innovators whose worlds were just beginning to align." "Theoretically sophisticated yet marvelously entertaining, The First Moderns offers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age."--Jacket.
0226224805 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226224800 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226224813
9780226224817
Thought and thinking History 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life History 20th century.
Science History 20th century.
Intellectuals History 20th century.
Scientists History 20th century.
Artists History 20th century.
Biography 20th century.
Pensée Histoire 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Sciences Histoire 20e siècle.
Intellectuels Histoire 20e siècle.
Artistes Histoire 20e siècle.
Biographies 20e siècle.
Artists.
Biography.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals.
Science.
Scientists.
Thought and thinking.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Wetenschapsbeoefening.
Bekende mensen.
Modernisme (esthétique)
Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Pensée 20e siècle.
Thought and thinking History.
Modernism (Arts)
Intellectual life History.
Science History.
History.
Location: Library main 127514
Call No.: ID B804.E84; ID:97-B1360
Status: Available
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