A break with tradition conventionally dated from 1789: a shift from cyclical to forward-moving, progressive time. In Shore's account it is experienced as trauma and crisis rather than triumphant progress.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Modernity, conventionally if arbitrarily dated from 1789, is a break in time, including a change in the prevailing conception of time: cyclical gives way to forward-moving, progressive time.
Put simply Shore: modernity, by convention (somewhat arbitrarily) dated from 1789, is a break in time. Even the idea of time changes: time that goes round in cycles gives way to time that moves forward and progresses.
In Shore's framing, modernity is a trauma and a crisis; every thinker on this syllabus feels it as painful and is, in one way or another, trying to work through it.
For Shore, alienation is modernity's central problem: once God is gone and nothing else binds the world together, human beings find themselves homeless in it.
Bauman defines modernity as the project of swapping out inherited solids for new ones that are supposed to be sturdier and tougher.
Put simply Bauman: modernity is the project of replacing the old "solids", inherited foundations, with new, harder and tougher ones.
Links from these claims to others in the course. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
ShoreThe candidates Shore names for God's vacant place, Man and History (both capitalized), set up a lasting tension between subjectivity, a turn inward, and teleology, time's forward motion. L1 · 42:16
ShoreFor Shore, alienation is modernity's central problem: once God is gone and nothing else binds the world together, human beings find themselves homeless in it. L1 · 44:19
Names alienation as the lived, felt consequence of the empty space left once God is gone.
MarxMarx's phrase "all that is solid melts into air" names the dissolution of everything that once seemed fixed and permanent. L25 · 34:12
BaumanBauman defines modernity as the project of swapping out inherited solids for new ones that are supposed to be sturdier and tougher. L25 · 34:19
Bauman takes Marx's melting-solids image and redeploys it as his definition of modernity as replacement of solids.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.