Gerald Bivens

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'modernity'=df

The essential fact of (what I refer to as) the modern lies in the relation between the present practice of an enterprise and the history of that enterprise, in the fact that this relation has become problematic.1

One could say that in a modernist situation "past" loses its temporal accent and means anything "not present." Meaning what one says becomes a matter of making one's sense present to oneself. 2

The basic features of early modern European culture were the increasing acceptance of the authority of science, the appearance of a new kind of pagan neoclassicism, and the subjectivist turn in philosophy.3

Notes

  1. Stanley Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.
  2. Ibid, Page range.
  3. Cornel West, Prophesy Deliverance! (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.