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1 day ago · Modernism is an early 20th-century movement in literature, the visual arts and music, emphasizing experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics and social issues, are also aspects of the movement, which sought to change how 'human beings in a society interact and live together'. [2]
2 days ago · The English-speaking peoples embodied that rarest of things, modernity with restraint, natural rights tethered to natural law, invigorating principle to sound prudence, material progress to a proper sense of limits and a well-grounded suspicion of utopian delusions. As Leo Strauss so suggestively said in his 1941 talk on “German Nihilism ...
2 days ago · Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical architectural styles and invent something that was purely functional and new. The revolution in materials came first, with the use of cast iron, drywall, plate glass, and ...
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5 days ago · A matrix of intellectual, social, and material forces that have transformed the world over the last quarter millennium, modernity has introduced new problems and possibilities into human life. Within modernity, issues of meaning, identity, and morality have been critiqued in distinctive ways.
5 days ago · McGarry explains the larger significance of Gralton’s story in “Communism, Sex, and All That Jazz: The Struggle Against Modernity in Interwar Ireland,” presented March 31 as part of the Burns Lecture series. (Watch the video below.) “Between the world wars in Ireland, there was a lot of anxiety about modern culture, modern trends, as ...
6 days ago · This guide contains resources to help students with their critical analysis research paper for Lisa Sumner's Modernity and Consumer Culture course. Reference and journal databases selected by the Library to support research into Modernity and consumer culture.
5 days ago · A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era. This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world.
