Origins and Foundations in the Modernist Age
Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2026
- ISBN 9781399566599
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
Reveals the historically distinctive ideas about origins and foundations that developed in the modernist period.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Physical Sciences
1. PHYSICS: Foundations of Matter, Energy, Light, Time, Space, Motion, Gravity, and Causality
2. COSMOLOGY: Composition, Center, and Origin of the Universe
3. GEOLOGY: Age of the Earth and Origins of the Continents and Mountains
4. BIOLOGY: Origins of Life, Species, and Human Beings
Part II: Social Sciences
5. ANTHROPOLOGY: Societal Origins and Foundations in Malinowski and Boas
6. PSYCHOLOGY: Mental Origins and Foundations in Freud and Jung
7. PSYCHIATRY: Origins of Mental Illness and Crime
PART III: Humanities
8. PHILOSOPHY: Genealogy of Morals in Nietzsche and Foundation of Being in Heidegger
9. RELIGION: Original Sin and Love in Gide, Joyce, and Lawrence
10. LITERATURE: Narrative Beginnings in Faulkner, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, Gide, Stein, Rhys, Richardson, and Hall
11. ART: Formal Foundations in Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Collage, Abstraction, Expressionism, Dadaism, and Surrealism
Conclusion: Cross-field Patterns
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