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The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought

Everdell, William R.

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PhilosophyArt HistorySports General

ISBN10: 0226224813
ISBN13: 9780226224817
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Jul 15 1998
Pages: 509
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.27 Width: 5.93 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siècle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers readers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age.

This exceptionally wide-ranging history is chock-a-block with anecdotes, factoids, odd juxtapositions, and useful insights. Most impressive. . . . For anyone interested in learning about late 19th- and early 20th- century imaginative thought, this engagingly written book is a good place to start.--Washington Post Book World

The First Moderns brilliantly maps the beginning of a path at whose end loom as many diasporas as there are men.--Frederic Morton, The Los Angeles Times Book Review

In this truly exciting study of the origins of modernist thought, poet and teacher Everdell roams freely across disciplinary lines. . . . A brilliant book that will prove useful to scholars and generalists for years to come; enthusiastically recommended.--Library Journal, starred review

Everdell has performed a rare service for his readers. Dispelling much of the current nonsense about 'postmodernism, ' this book belongs on the very short list of profound works of cultural analysis.--Booklist

Innovative and impressive . . . [Everdell] has written a marvelous, erudite, and readable study.-Mark Bevir, Spectator

A richly eclectic history of the dawn of a new era in painting, music, literature, mathematics, physics, genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry and philosophy.--Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist

[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.--Hugh Kenner, The New York Times Book Review

Everdell shows how the idea of modernity arose before the First World War by telling the stories of heroes such as T. S. Eliot, Max Planck, and Georges Serault with such a lively eye for detail, irony, and ambiance that you feel as if you're reliving those miraculous years.--Jon Spayde, Utne Reader

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