Differentiations of Modernity  

Oleh:

Lichtblau, Klaus

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 16 no. 3 (Jun. 1999), page 1-30.
Fulltext: 1TCAS163.pdf (230.26KB)

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In contrast to other approaches, 'modernity' in this article is not dealt with as a historical concept but as a normative-aesthetic term and as a mythical narrative in the sense of Nietzsche's 'eternal recurrence of the same'. Paradoxically, there still exists a semantic shift between different historical concepts of modernity beginning in late antiquity and the Middle Ages up to the present confusions about 'postmodernity'. However, the aesthetical bias of the discourse of modernity prevents any serious interpretation which is able to refer these semantic shifts directly to some clear and incontestable socio-structural facts and developments. In its contemporary sociological form this discourse overlaps on the contrary with some main trends in aesthetic theory and practice: the exchangeability between 'old' and 'new' and the permanent suspension of the boundaries between 'art' and 'life'. Consequently, aesthetics as well as sociology are describing modernity as a cultural system which is 'playing' with its own fundamental differentiations between 'in' and 'out' or selfreference and other-reference.

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