Linked from
The 28 pages that link to Modernity, each with the reason it gives.
TerrorismNarrower topic: Modern transport, communication, and mass politics changed the reach and visibility of political violence.
EurocentrismRelated: Accounts that equate modernity with Europe can obscure parallel and connected histories elsewhere.
Jürgen HabermasNarrower topic: Habermas treats modernity as an unfinished project whose promise depends on communicative reason.
The CaveRelated: The Center embodies a modernity that promises convenience while displacing older forms of work.
TraditionCompared with: Tradition is often framed against modernity, though inherited practices can adapt within it.
Early modern periodCompared with: Historians debate when early modern transformations became distinctively modern.
Berthe MorisotRelated: Her contemporary clothes, leisure, and interiors capture everyday life in nineteenth-century France.
Georg SimmelNarrower topic: Simmel’s work became influential for describing modernity’s effects on individuality and everyday experience.
European modernismNarrower topic: Modernist artists recast experience shaped by expanding cities, technology, and social upheaval.
Anthony GiddensNarrower topic: Giddens explains modernity as a distinctive institutional order rather than a simple break from tradition.
Ernest GellnerNarrower topic: Gellner explained nationalism as a political consequence of modernity.
Fin de siècleNarrower topic: Fin-de-siècle unease grew from confronting modernity’s pace and disruptions.
Blaise CendrarsRelated: Cendrars made travel, technology, cities, and speed central subjects of modern experience.
A Bar at the Folies-BergèreNarrower topic: The music hall, consumer goods, and anonymous crowd present modern Paris as spectacle.
Bathers at AsnièresNarrower topic: The riverbank joins industrial infrastructure with newly visible forms of urban leisure.
Henry AdamsRelated: Adams made accelerating change and technological power central problems in his later writing.
Axial AgeRelated: Jaspers treated the Axial Age as a distant source of modern self-understanding.
FlâneurNarrower topic: The flâneur embodies modernity’s new rhythms, crowds, and forms of anonymity.
Jacob BurckhardtRelated: His Renaissance account portrayed early signs of modernity emerging in Italian city-states.
Leo StraussRelated: Strauss’s critique of modernity centers on its break with classical accounts of nature and political purpose.
Zygmunt BaumanNarrower topic: Bauman’s changing account of modernity grounds his analysis of both order and instability.
Bal du moulin de la GaletteRelated: The painting makes leisure among ordinary Parisians a subject of contemporary art.
Ferdinand TönniesRelated: His framework became a way to describe the social transformations associated with modernity.
Julius EvolaCompared with: Evola cast modernity as a period of spiritual decline and social dissolution.
Late modern periodNarrower topic: The period is one historical setting in which modernity took shape.
Zeno's ConscienceNarrower topic: The novel’s final vision links individual instability to destructive forces in modern civilization.
Contemporary eraRelated: The contemporary era is often treated as modernity’s latest phase.
Modern era (history)Related: The concept describes characteristics of modern life, not simply a span of dates.