Ronald Schleifer offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. His study analyzes the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that this transition expresses itself centrally in an altered conception of temporality. Addressing a variety of disciplines, this study examines the period's remarkable breaks with the past in literature, music, and the arts more generally, and engages with the work of writers and thinkers as varied as George Eliot, Walter Benjamin, Einstein and Russell. "...Schleifer's study of modernism and time - emphasizing the logic of abundance...in lterature, science, and culture - is a tour de force...intriguing study...Most useful to graduate students and above." Choice "Overall, this volume is well written and researched, and contains an index with an impressive number of subcategories...With its wide span of focal points, Modernism and Time should be of considerable interest to scholars in both the humanities and the sciences." Colloquia Germanica This book offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. Used Book in Good Condition