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  2. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    [53] [11] Modernity as a "plural condition" is the central concept of this sociologic approach and perspective, which broadens the definition of "modernity" from exclusively denoting Western European culture to a culturally relativistic definition, thereby: "Modernity is not Westernization, and its key processes and dynamics can be found in all ...

  3. Modern era - Wikipedia

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    The common definition of the modern period today is often associated with events like the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the transition to nationalism towards the liberal international order. The modern period has been a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology.

  4. Modernism - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This Proto-Cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [1]

  5. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    The word etymology is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumologíā), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning ' true sense or sense of a truth ', and the suffix -logia, denoting ' the study or logic of '.

  6. Flâneur - Wikipedia

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    The figure of the flâneur has been used—among other things – to explain modern, urban experience, to explain urban spectatorship, to explain the class tensions and gender divisions of the nineteenth-century city, to describe modern alienation, to explain the sources of mass culture, to explain the postmodern spectatorial gaze. [13]

  7. Nihilism - Wikipedia

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    Etymology, terminology and definition [ edit ] The etymological origin of nihilism is the Latin root word nihil , meaning 'nothing', which is similarly found in the related terms annihilate , meaning 'to bring to nothing', [ 5 ] and nihility , meaning ' nothingness '. [ 21 ]

  8. Portal:Modern history - Wikipedia

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    The common definition of the modern period today is often associated with events like the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the transition to nationalism towards the liberal international order. The modern period has been a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology.

  9. Early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The early modern period is a historical period that is part of, or (depending on the historian) immediately preceded, the modern period, with divisions based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity. There is no exact date that marks the beginning or end of the period and its extent may vary depending on the area ...