The term ‘modernism’ has its intellectual foundations in the study of literature and the visual arts. There it usually refers to a broad cultural movement characterized by a spirit of constant challenge to received forms—modernism...

The word ‘modern’ has served as an important, if shifting, point of reference in anthropology’s developing sense of disciplinary identity and purpose. So, for example, anthropology may be thought of as the work of ‘modern’...

Abedi, M. and Fischer, M. (1990) Debating Muslims: Cultural dialogues in post-modernity and tradition, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim (1996) Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World,...

An aesthetic culture reflecting the post-Enlightenment...

Modernism describes a series of reforming cultural movements in art and architecture, music, literature and the applied arts which emerged roughly in the period of 1884-1914. The term covers many political, cultural and artistic movements rooted in the...

The terms fascism and modern art used to seem comfortingly opposed to each other, but the last two decades of scholarship in history, art history, and literature have radically revised that postwar complacency. An understanding of the profound interrelation of these two terms...

I THE NOTION OF "multiple modernities" denotes a certain view of the contemporary world--indeed of the history and characteristics of the modern era--that goes against the views long prevalent in scholarly and general discourse. It goes against the view of the "classical"...

President Bush on Tuesday approved changes aimed at modernizing the country's controls on the export of sensitive products to foreign nations. U.S. manufacturers said the changes should boost the ability of American companies to make overseas sales.In a brief statement, the White House said the...

Location: The downside of a strong real-estate market is that people have been priced out of neighborhoods, old mom-and-pop shops closed. There was even a “Talk of the Town” piece in The New Yorker recently about how New Yorkers believe their city is changing too...

In the following essay, Chamberlain links Modernism to the late nineteenth-century Decadent movement.

In the following excerpt, Josipovici studies the relationship between Modernism and the earlier artistic movement of Romanticism.

In the following essay, Levin reflects on the distinguishing traits and cultural significance of the Modernist era in literature.

The history of the Modernism movement, paying special attention to Eliot's "The Wasteland" and Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."

An informal essay on the definitions of modernism.

Describes the differences between modernism and post-modernism and how post-modernism is only a shadow of modernism.