Synopses & Reviews
Review
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
Review
A brilliant, gutsy essay in intellectual history [on] how thought, technology, art, and politics smashed objective time and bourgeois hierarchies of space. The Nation
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Stephen Kern is Professor of History at Ohio State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Nature of Time
2. The Past
3. The Present
4. The Future
5. Speed
6. The Nature of Space
7. Form
8. Distance
9. Direction
10. Temporality of the July Crisis
11. The Cubist War
Conclusion
Notes
Index