Fragments of Modernity - Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin

Author: Frisby
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: In recent years in China, we have encountered modernity on multiple occasions and repeatedly experienced a profound sense of contradiction: the yearning for progress, the back-and-forth between advancement and regression, the clash between radicalism and conservatism, the interplay of passion and disappointment, and the tension between ideals and reality. These conflicting experiences have shaped our understanding and judgment of modernity. From the West to the East, from the modern era to the contemporary, modernity is an open concept of "family resemblance," serving as a focal point of contradictions and conflicts across political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the modern process.