Sunday, October 08, 2006

Definitions of Modernity

Richard Hooker:

Modernity - the sense that the present is discontinuous with the past - is an illusion and this illusion creates modernity itself. What has changed is social memory; we have disconnected most of our practices and ideas from our collective memory of their origins and meanings.

Frederick M. Dolan:
(Hannah Arendt & the Political Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth)

Modernity, its secularism notwithstanding, just is the attempt to trascend the human world, from the conviction, presumably that there is no other way to remedy its frailty.

George Steiner:
(Real Presences)
It is this break of the covenant between word and world which constitutes of the very few genuine revolutions of the spirit in Western history and which defines modernity itself.

Hannah Arendt:
(The Human Condition)
Modernity is the struggle of men to escape the earth, the quintessence of the human condition.

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