{"product_id":"the-culture-of-time-and-space-18801918-9780674021693","title":"The Culture of Time and Space 18801918","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKern writes about 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 20th anniversary, Kern provides a new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant, gutsy essay in intellectual history [on] how thought, technology, art, and politics smashed objective time and bourgeois hierarchies of space. * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49917764108631,"sku":"9780674021693","price":28.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674021693.jpg?v=1738449102","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-culture-of-time-and-space-18801918-9780674021693","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}