Modernity

Generational changes in attitudes, popular culture and lifestyle are obvious, but how do they come about? Perhaps our lives are forever ‘morphing’, being affected beyond recognition by technology and commercialisation. Perhaps we’re mesmerised by ‘modernity’, left unable to think for ourselves and carried along by the latest values and trends. Eloquently, Nicholas Malaos argues that it’s impossible to examine the present objectively when we’re absorbed in it; we can only ever scrutinise distant history with any sense of detachment. Yet despite being unable to fully appreciate ‘modernity’ – or even ‘truth’ – we remain products of our vast and inescapable past, swept along by the pace of the present.

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Modernity

Generational changes in attitudes, popular culture and lifestyle are obvious, but how do they come about? Perhaps our lives are forever ‘morphing’, being affected beyond recognition by technology and commercialisation. Perhaps we’re mesmerised by ‘modernity’, left unable to think for ourselves and carried along by the latest values and trends. Eloquently, Nicholas Malaos argues that it’s impossible to examine the present objectively when we’re absorbed in it; we can only ever scrutinise distant history with any sense of detachment. Yet despite being unable to fully appreciate ‘modernity’ – or even ‘truth’ – we remain products of our vast and inescapable past, swept along by the pace of the present.

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Modernity

Modernity

by Nicholas Malaos
Modernity

Modernity

by Nicholas Malaos

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Overview

Generational changes in attitudes, popular culture and lifestyle are obvious, but how do they come about? Perhaps our lives are forever ‘morphing’, being affected beyond recognition by technology and commercialisation. Perhaps we’re mesmerised by ‘modernity’, left unable to think for ourselves and carried along by the latest values and trends. Eloquently, Nicholas Malaos argues that it’s impossible to examine the present objectively when we’re absorbed in it; we can only ever scrutinise distant history with any sense of detachment. Yet despite being unable to fully appreciate ‘modernity’ – or even ‘truth’ – we remain products of our vast and inescapable past, swept along by the pace of the present.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940155870616
Publisher: Nicholas Malaos
Publication date: 11/06/2018
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 439 KB

About the Author

Nicholas Malaos was born in New York City. He attended Columbia University as an undergraduate, studying philosophy, humanities and contemporary civilisation. A British resident the whole of his adult life, he now divides his time between London and the southern Peloponnese, in Greece.
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