He is the author of the culture of time and space, the culture of love, and eyes of love. Stephen kern stephen kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and world war i that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. September 11th stephen kern, the culture of time and space. Pdf stephen kern, the culture of time and space thomas. Stephen kern, the culture of time and space, 18801918. Stephen kern is the author of the culture of time and space, 18801918 4.
Stephen kern, author of the culture of time and space, 18801918, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. Stephen kern is humanities distinguished professor of history at ohio state university. Stephen kern s fascinating book, the culture of time and space, investigates these and other radical changes that occurred in peoples temporal and spatial reality at the turn of the twentieth century. Kern calls time and space the universal, essential realities through which humans perceive, experience and live life, and he uses them to.
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Stephen kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and world war i that created new modes of understanding and. The culture of time and space, 18801918 2nd second edition text only. To mark the books twentieth anniversary, kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary. The culture of time and space, 18801918 department of. Stephen kern, the culture of time and space 18801918 harvard university press, 1983. Stephen kern writes about the onrush of technics that reshaped life concretelytelephone, electric lighting, steamship, skyscraper, bicycle, cinema, plane, xray, machine gunand the cultural.
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Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century europe was defined by contradictions and tensions. To me kern hits the sweet spot of reporting on the past in such a way that meanings arise from the actionlet the. Bibliotekernes beskrivelse stephen kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and world war i that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. Stephen kern author of the culture of time and space.
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To mark the books twentieth anniversary, kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in interpretive approach that has made this a seminal work in interdisciplinary studies. Kern calls time and space the universal, essential realities through which humans perceive, experience and live life, and he uses them. The culture of time and space, 18801918 9780674179738 by kern, stephen and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Stephen kern writes about the onrush of technics that reshaped life concretelytelephone, electric lighting, steamship, skyscraper, bicycle, cinema, plane, xray. Abstract ideas such as time and space serve as crucial characters in stephen kern s intellectual history the culture of time and space 18801918.
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