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Elements for a Theory of Modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Philibert Secretan
Philibert Secretan*
Affiliation:
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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Extract

The terms “modem” and “modernity”, like many other terms in common use and of wide extension, are extremely complex. And a theory of modernity should have no other goal initially than to settle this polysemy in the hope of arriving at a sufficiently rigid definition that the “thing” itself can become the object of a clearer consideration. But what is the path toward this greater clarity?

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 32 , Issue 126 , January 1984 , pp. 71 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 Editions de Minuit, 1962.

2 Paul Hazard, La Crise de la conscience européenne, Paris, 1961, p. 26.

3 Curiosités esthétiques, "De l'héroîsme de la vie modeme".

4 Henri Van Lier, Le Nouvel Age, Tournai, 1962, p. 70.

5 An interesting study could be made of the mechanical model employed in the "assembly" of the Comunist party by Lenin.

6 Les mots et les choses, Paris, 1966, p. 345.