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Definition of Modernity

Modernity

  1. Modernness; something modern.
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.
Antonio Gramsci

Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
Theodor Adorno

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire

Modernity Translations

modernity in German is Moderne

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