From Library Journal
In this truly exciting study of the origins of modernist thought, poet and teacher Everdell (The End of Kings, 1983) roams freely across disciplinary lines, commenting on fields as disparate as mathematics and moving pictures, neuroscience and music, and literature and the concentration camps. He argues that the most original thinkers in the modern age (ca. 1870 to 1914) illuminated a shared perception of the world, pointing to a reality seen as fragmented and discontinuous, isolate, "digital" (yes/no, not flowing), and quantized. "Modernists dissect routinely and obsessively.... The intellectual world of Modernism is...a world of precise definition and separability." Some of the thinkers Everdell profiles include mathematician Georg Cantor, physicists Ludwig Bolzmann and Albert Einstein, Freud, Seurat and Picasso, Rimbaud and Whitman, Edwin S. Porter, and Merce Cunningham. A brilliant book that will prove useful to scholars and generalists for years to come; enthusiastically recommended.?David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
The New York Times Book Review, Hugh Kenner
William R. Everdell ... has himself recombined the parts of our era's intellectual history in new and startling ways, shedding light for which the reader of The First Moderns will be eternally grateful.
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