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RSS FeedsWhy am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
(WorldNews Environment)

 
 

27 september 2020 17:57:01

 
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
(WorldNews Environment)
 


ShareTweetPrint A friend of mine quipped that it is one thing to talk about the end of modernism—as the two of us have been doing for over 25 years—and quite another to live through it. It might seem that such notions are far too abstract to account for the anxiety of our fraught times. But underneath all the disorder we see in our pandemic-plagued economic, social and political lives is the crumbling of key assumptions about what we call modernity, a period of “enlightenment” that has supposedly freed us from the past. First, let me recount what I regard as four key assumptions of modernism—I’ve written about them before—which are being demolished every day right before...


 
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