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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.

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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.

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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.

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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.

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Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1997.

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N190.904/8

Record Identifier

74VvppR3x80d

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991005148039702626

Language

English

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Physical content

xi, 501 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

1. Introduction: What Modernism Is and What It Probably Isn't -- 2. The Century Ends in Vienna: Modernism's Time Lost, 1899 -- 3. Georg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, and Gottlob Frege: What Is a Number, 1872-1883 -- 4. Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical Gases, Entropy, and the Direction of Time, 1872-1877 --...

15. Albert Einstein: The Space-Time Interval and the Quantum of Light, 1905 -- 16. Pablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906-1907 -- 17. August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream, 1907 -- 18. Arnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908 -- 19. James Joyce: The Novel Goes to Pieces, 1909-1910 -- 20. Vassily...

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Publisher

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1997.

Place of Publication

Illinois

Date Published

c1997.

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The first moderns : profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-461) and index.

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c1997.

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N190.904/8

Record Identifier

74VvppR3x80d

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ISBN

0226224805 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780226224800 (cloth : alk. paper)

DDC

190.904

MMS ID

991005148039702626

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