Tell me when #modernity began and I'll tell you who you are.
Heidegger says modernity began with Plato. But I say it began with Isaiah and Jeremiah, if not the Creation of the World.
Take note proponents of "Progress Studies."
whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/when-did-mod…
Heidegger says modernity began with Plato. But I say it began with Isaiah and Jeremiah, if not the Creation of the World.
Take note proponents of "Progress Studies."
whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/when-did-mod…
Dividing time into periods may be even harder than dividing the earth into nation states. Within this general problematic, defining modernity may be the most difficult.
The exercise of dating modernity collapses on itself, just as the task of the macro-historian ultimately collapses into the task of speculative theology and poetry (which is why the oldest works of literature are works not of chronicles, but of poetry and folklore).
Bruno Latour says “We have never been modern.” But the flipside of his provocation is that we have always been modern, and that modernity is not something we can undo, so much as a chronic condition.
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