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May 4, 2026Modernism/modernity

Late Modernism’s “Sick Souls”: The Modernist Mind Science of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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This article analyzes modernist aesthetics' connection to cognitive psychology, suggesting significant civic engagement implications.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the relationship between modernist aesthetics in Agee and Evans’s work and William James’s cognitive psychology.
  • Examined James Agee and Walker Evans's experimentalism in relation to William James's psychological theories.
  • Utilized an enactivist framework to analyze the civic implications of James's psychology and its influence on Agee and Evans's work.
  • Highlighted how Agee and Evans’s experimental aesthetics engage with James’s concepts of brain plasticity and habit.
  • Revealed the civic commitments underlying James’s psychology, connecting them to the modernist artistic expression of Agee and Evans.

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Stephanie L. Hawkins (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f836d93ed186a739980f8bhttps://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2026.a989248
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