Modernity refers to a historical period which began in Western Europe with a series of cultural, social and economic changes during the seventeenth century, and it is usually characterized by three features: first, culturally, a reliance on reason and...

So far I have discussed a point of reference (the modern, the moment without precedent), a process (modernization as the shedding of tradition), and a cultural movement characterized by certain kinds of cultural product (modernism). Finally we arrive...

So much is made of ‘post’ modernity, and with phrases like ‘the crisis of modernity’ abounding; it seems necessary to have some sense of what is actually meant by modernity or the modern age itself. In its most trivial sense, of...

A philosophical and sociological concept used to describe the post-traditional society, which emerged after the...

Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being related to modernism. Since the term "modern" is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be understood in its context, the industrial age of the 19th century, and its role in...

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...