Novelty : a history of the new /
North, Michael,1951-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
How newness comes into the world -- Newness comes into the world -- Two traditions of the new: cycles and combinations -- Darwin's renovation of the new -- Counting and accounting for the new: probability, information theory, genetics -- Novelty in the twentieth century -- The structure of scientific discovery: Kuhn and Weiner -- Making it new: novelty and aesthetic modernism -- Modernist novelty and the neo-avant-garde.
New and old.
Evolution.