What does the word "modernity" refer to? Some historians relate this concept to the Renaissance and the rejection of medieval culture. Others restrict the notion of "modernity" to the Enlightenment, which itself denied tradition. However, the word "modern" seems to have a much longer history that goes back to the distinction between the Ancients and the Moderns. For the first time, this word was introduced in its Latin form, "modernus," in the late fifth century. It was used to distinguish the present, which had become officially Christian, from the Roman and pagan past. Hence, transitioning from the old to the new becomes essential for modernity. It is re-introduced every time the culture of a new epoch renews its relationship with the ancients.
Moreover, during such renewals, antiquity is always seen as a model to be recovered through some imitation. This seems to be true of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment (in a strict sense related to "the project of modernity"), and the following Romanticism that opposed, in turn, the antique ideals of the classicists.
The new stage in radicalizing the modernist consciousness occurred when a recent historical era called “modernism” emerged in the nineteenth century. Contemporary scholars use two seemingly interchangeable words to describe recent developments that followed modernism: postmodernism and postmodernity.
In this video presentation, I will explore the characteristic features of the "postmodern condition" and analyze the views of several of its advocates. To discuss its distinctive features, I use a book by an American historian, Frederick Jameson, Postmodernism or the Logic of Late Capitalism, and an article by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, "The Ecstasy of Communication."
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