The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918: With a New Preface

by Stephen Kern

Overview

Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book’s twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674744370
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	11/30/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Stephen Kern is Professor of History at The Ohio State University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1	The Nature of Time	10
2	The Past	36
3	The Present	65
4	The Future	89
5	Speed	109
6	The Nature of Space	131
7	Form	181
8	Distance	211
9	Direction	241
10	Temporality of the July Crisis	259
11	The Cubist War	287
	Conclusion	313
	Notes	321
	Index	363

Editorial Reviews

A brilliant, gutsy essay in intellectual history [on] how thought, technology, art, and politics smashed objective time and bourgeois hierarchies of space.

The Nation

No brief summary can do justice to the richness and range of this exciting book, which brims with ideas and insights, evidence and examples, and provides the most comprehensive account of the life of the mind in these crucial decades before the First World War, when so much of our modern world was formed and fashioned. Kern’s command of art and literature, painting and architecture, philosophy and psychology, physics and technology is awesome: he moves from Proust to Picasso, Einstein to Stravinsky, with consummate ease and unquenchable enthusiasm.

London Review of Books

A brilliant, gutsy essay in intellectual history [on] how thought, technology, art, and politics smashed objective time and bourgeois hierarchies of space.-- "The Nation"

No brief summary can do justice to the richness and range of this exciting book, which brims with ideas and insights, evidence and examples, and provides the most comprehensive account of the life of the mind in these crucial decades before the First World War, when so much of our modern world was formed and fashioned. Kern's command of art and literature, painting and architecture, philosophy and psychology, physics and technology is awesome: he moves from Proust to Picasso, Einstein to Stravinsky, with consummate ease and unquenchable enthusiasm.-- "London Review of Books"

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