Modernity definition

Modernity means contingency. It points to a social order which has turned from the worship of ancestors and past authorities to the pursuit of a projected future – of goods, pleasures, freedoms, forms of control over nature, or infinities of information. (Clark, 2001: 7)
Modernity always means setting a date and posltmg a
Modernity alone if this means that concrete technologies and what they

Examples of Modernity in a sentence

  • Superstitious Regimes: Religion and the Politics of Chinese Modernity.

  • The Bosniak and the Challenges of Modernity: Late Ottoman and Hapsburg Times.

  • Modernity, in his view, effectively commenced in the seventeenth century and it was at this point that theology took a ‘wrong turn’.

  • Hellenisms: Culture, identity, and ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity.

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  • Magic and Modernity, 1–38.Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  • In: D.O. Henry (ed.), Neanderthals in the Levant: Behavioral Organization and the Beginnings of Human Modernity, pp.

  • In Nahdlatul Ulama, Traditional Islam, and Modernity in Indonesia, edited by ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇, 119—28.

  • In Hellenisms: Culture, identity, and ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity, ed.

  • Please see ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ‘Reading Bharatchandra: Reading Poetry and the Figuration of Modernity in Bengal (1822-1858)’ in Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 11 (2009), 316-33.


More Definitions of Modernity

Modernity as a further means of identifying key sources (these meta-data, e.g. number of citations, etc. are included in the corpus breakdown in Appendix 2). However, for the corpus to be representative, other ways of searching and finding relevant sources need to be used in combination with citation metrics in order to develop a diverse and representative corpus. I therefore combed through the bibliographies of thirty sources which range over my timeframe and variety of topics, and which I believe are authoritative and key sources in the field, in order to create a list of sources that recurred most often across different sources, were most relevant to my topic of research, whilst also encompassing a broad variety of perspectives and approaches.42 I also added sources from my own bibliographical lists that I had drawn up throughout researching the subject over the years as well as from annotated bibliographies dealing with the topic (namely Dowling’s Aestheticism and Decadence (1977)).