The First Moderns
The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought is a book on Modernism by the historian William Everdell, published in 1997 by the University of Chicago Press. A New York Times Notable Book of 1997, and included by the New York Public Library on its list of "25 Books to Remember from 1997", The First Moderns suggests that "the heart of Modernism is the postulate of ontological discontinuity".[1]
Author
English
1997
United States
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Reviews[edit]
Critics largely reviewed The First Moderns favorably, appreciating Everdell's interdisciplinary approach, in publications including the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.[3] The Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda considers it among his "favorites".[4]