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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: What Modernism Is and What It Probably Isn't | |
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| The Century Ends in Vienna: Modernism's Time Lost, 1899 | |
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| Georg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, and Gottlob Frege: What Is a Number, 1872-1883 | |
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| Ludwig Boltzmann: Statistical Gases, Entropy, and the Direction of Time, 1872-18775. Georges Seurat: Divisionism, Cloisonnism, and Chronophotography, 1885 | |
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| Whitman, Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue: Poems without Meter, 1886 | |
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| Santiago Ramon y Cajal: The Atoms of Brain, 1889 | |
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| Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau: Inventing the Concentration Camp, 1896 | |
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| Sigmund Freud: Time Repressed and Ever-Present, 1899 | |
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| The Century Begins in Paris: Modernism on the Verge, 1900 | |
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| Hugo de Vries and Max Planck: The Gene and the Quantum, 1900 | |
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| Bertrand Russell and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology, Number, and the Fall of Logic, 1901 | |
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| Edwin S. Porter: Parts at Sixteen per Second, 1903 | |
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| Meet Me in Saint Louis: Modernism Comes to Middle America, 1904 | |
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| Albert Einstein: The Space-Time Interval and the Quantum of Light, 1905 | |
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| Pablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906-1907 | |
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| August Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream, 1907 | |
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| Arnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908 | |
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| James Joyce: The Novel Goes to Pieces, 1909-1910 | |
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| Vassily Kandisky: Art with No Object, 1911-1912 | |
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| Annus Mirabilis: Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1913 | |
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| Discontinuous Epilogues: Heisenberg and Bohr, Godel and Turing, Merce Cunningham and Michael Foucault | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |