Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age

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Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

429 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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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399566599

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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).

PrefaceIntroductionPart I: Physical Sciences1. PHYSICS: Foundations of Matter, Energy, Light, Time, Space, Gravity, and Causality2. COSMOLOGY: Composition, Center, and Origin of the Universe3. GEOLOGY: Age of the Earth and Origins of Continents and Mountains4. BIOLOGY: Origins of Life, Species, and Human BeingsPart II: Social Sciences5. ANTHROPOLOGY: Societal Origins and Foundations in Malinowski and Boas6. PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Origins and Foundations in Freud and Jung7. PSYCHIATRY: Origins of Mental Illness and CrimePART III: Humanities8. PHILOSOPHY: Genealogy of Morals in Nietzsche and Foundation of Being in Heidegger9. RELIGION: Original Sin and Love in Gide, Joyce, and Lawrence10. LITERATURE: Narrative Beginnings in Faulkner, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Gide, Stein, Rhys, Richardson, and Hall11. ART: Formal Foundations in Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Collage, Abstraction, Expressionism, Dadaism, and SurrealismConclusion: Cross-field PatternsWorks Cited