The First Moderns

Acknowledgments
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
5. Georges Seurat: Divisionism, Cloisonnism, and Chronophotography, 1885
6. Whitman, Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue: Poems without Meter, 1886
7. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: The Atoms of Brain, 1889
8. Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau: Inventing the Concentration Camp, 1896
9. Sigmund Freud: Time Repressed and Ever-Present, 1899
10. The Century Begins in Paris: Modernism on the Verge, 1900
11. Hugo de Vries and Max Planck: The Gene and the Quantum, 1900
12. Bertrand Russell and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology, Number, and the Fall of Logic, 1901
13. Edwin S. Porter: Parts at Sixteen per Second, 1903
14. Meet Me in Saint Louis: Modernism Comes to Middle America, 1904
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 Kandisky: Art with No Object, 1911-1912
21. Annus Mirabilis: Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1913
22. Discontinuous Epilogues: Heisenberg and Bohr, Godel and Turing, Merce Cunningham and Michael Foucault
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