Modernity

Modernity

Modernity typically refers to an historical era, roughly defined as a post-traditional or post-medieval period beginning Renaissance (ca. 14th–17th Centuries), characterized by a move from feudalism (or agrarianism) toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance (Barker 2005, 444)

Read more about Modernity.

Famous quotes containing the word modernity:

    “The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear—and even, in certain respects, would be—the most modern of critical movements.”
    —Paul Deman (1919–1983)