1913 – The Cradle of Modernism

Jean-Michel Rabate is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading figure among the generation of French theorists taught by Derrida and by Lacan. His books include the Blackwell Manifesto volume The Future of Theory (2002), The Ghosts of Modernity (1996), Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), Jacques Lacan and Literature (2001), and Given: 1) Art, 2) Crime (2006). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to Jacques Lacan (2002), Writing the Image after Roland Barthes (1997), and the Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies (2004).

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Modernism, Crisis, and Early Globalization. 1. The New in the Arts. 2. Collective Agencies. 3. Everyday Life and the New Episteme. 4. Learning to be Modern in 1913. 5. Global Culture and the Invention of the Other. 6. The Splintered Subject of Modernism. 7. At War with Oneself: The Last Cosmopolitan Travels of German and Austrian Modernism. 8. Modernism and the End of Nostalgia. Conclusion: Antagonisms. Notes. Index