Questions tagged [modernism]
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What is the difference between Modernity and Enlightenment?
I know several Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Smith and Locke were responsible for diminishing what Arendt calls "the realm of the political" and then they proceeded to reduce humans to their economic roles which Arendt says is a problem of…
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Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
Who has linked the analysis of modernism or post modernism to Lacan's four discourses?
I mean obviously there's some kinda link between the master's discourse and at least some forms of modernism. I'm asking because I want to make sense of why post…
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Is Nietzsche's eternal return symbolized by the Vortex of early modernists?
The image of the Vortex was used a fair amount in Modernist literature, most importantly by Pound and Lewis, who numbered Joyce and Eliot in their circle.
I was wondering if a "vortex" was -- implicitly or otherwise -- meant here as a figure for…
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Have we become less happy in this age of technology?
With the growing emergence of technology and our busy routine, everyone is busy on their own; people are considering their lives so busy! Are we becoming less happy in this modern era of technology?
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How much medieval philosophy do I need to know to understand modern philosophy?
I have read Plato's dialogues, Aristotles's "Nicomachean Ethics" and also Peter Adamson's two books about classical and hellenistic philosophies. Do I need to read primary texts of medieval philosophy or can I continue with Descartes?
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Why is “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco often regarded as postmodern?
Why is “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco often regarded as postmodern?
The only somewhat plausible explanation (yet I’m still quite sure that it is not correct) I’ve managed to come up with is the following:
Despite the looks of it, the role of…
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Do followers of Lyotard consider modernism deconstructive?
Do followers of Lyotard consider modernism deconstructive? I ask only because I've read that
Furthermore, says Lyotard, a work can become modern only if it is
first postmodern, for postmodernism is not modernism at its end but in
its nascent…
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Modern problems in philosophy?
I cant imagine, what philosophers do in 21 centuary. My question is if is any hot topic in philosophy in these days?
Ps. i am so sorry if this tag is not right to my topic, but dont know which is the right one.
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What do post modernists make of modern art and modernity?
What do post modernists make of modernism and modernity: how it has failed and succeeded?
I can only take the term "post modern" at face value, as meaning after modern.
The modern itself I can't really define: in both art and society I think of it…
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What does the rejection of Enlightenment thinking by Modernism amount to?
Not sure whether this is the right place for this question, but anyways, Wikipedia states:
"Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking." (source)
As someone with a background in mathematics and science, I'm not sure what I'm…
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How does post modernism relate to post structuralism?
Going through the wikis of both, I get a similar feeling from both of them, but I can't put in words exactly how they are related. Here are simple introductions from wiki:
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterized…
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How do the Wagnerian antecedents of 'total art' appear in modernism, and does it have anything to do with arts and crafts?
How do the Wagnerian antecedents of 'total art' appear in modernism, and does it have anything to do with arts and crafts? I'm just interested in that narrative today.
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Should we accept non-predictive inductive arguments based on cultural judgments?
Some inductive arguments that are taken seriously are based on observations about society/culture that cannot be objectively confirmed and do not produce any predictions. Does that make them less cogent?
The example I'm thinking of is from art.…
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What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's fragmentation?
the most authentic art is modernist art which reflects in its own
fragmentation the fragmentation of society.
What is the difference between Adorno's 'fragmentation' and post-modern art's fragmentation (which the article says high modernists…
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Has any philosopher argued that the point of life is to extract art from it?
The painter poet Lewis claimed
“Just Life” or soi-disant “Reality” is a fourth quantity, made up of
the Past, the Future and Art.
This impure Present our Vortex despises and ignores.
For our Vortex is uncompromising.
We must have the Past and the…
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