Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Post-Enlightenment Modernism and the experience of time; ENLIGHTENMENT TEMPORALITY; POST-ENLIGHTENMENT TEMPORALITY; HISTORY, EXPERIENCE, UNDERSTANDING; ANALOGIES OF COMPREHENSION; TIME AND ETHER; MULTIPLYING REASON: THE LOGIC OF ABUNDANCE; MULTIPLYING VALUE: THE TEMPORAL ECONOMY OF CHOICE; MULTIPLYING EXPERIENCE: THE ANSWERABILITY OF ART; THE DIALECTIC OF ABUNDANCE AND POVERTY; THE TIME OF MODERNISM; CHAPTER 1 The Enlightenment, abundance, and postmodernity
Summary
Modernism and Time offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism across a broad range of disciplines. Ronald Schleifer examines changing conceptions of temporality in post-Enlightenment thought and engages with the work of writers and thinkers as diverse as George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Einstein and Russell
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-267) and index
