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Confronting Modernity

Confronting Modernity. Three great revolutions . The Enlightenment: new knowledge and endless progress The Atlantic Revolutions: natural rights, legal equality, government of the people The Industrial Revolution: promise of universal plenty.

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Confronting Modernity

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  1. Confronting Modernity

  2. Three great revolutions The Enlightenment: new knowledge and endless progress The Atlantic Revolutions: natural rights, legal equality, government of the people The Industrial Revolution: promise of universal plenty

  3. Modernism:a world of unsettling images, words, & sounds

  4. O to be in EnglandNow that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England--now! ---Robert Browning (1845)

  5. Modern voice:uncertainty, isolation from the past and the future, longing for redemption April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter. Come and I shall show you fear in a handful of dust. ---T.S. Eliot (1922)

  6. Skepticism • Everyday world of sights and sounds is deceptive • Ability of reason or common sense to understand that real world

  7. 19th-century Certainty live in a world of quantifiable facts science is the royal road to truth science holds the key to human progress

  8. Natural selection banished mystery from the story of life, leaving only facts in its place

  9. Promise of science unfulfilled

  10. Survival of the fittest Herbert Spencer

  11. Human beings & world mysterious NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The faintest and reddest objects (left inset) in the image are galaxies that correspond to "look-back times" of approximately 12.9 billion years to 13.1 billion years ago

  12. Renewed interest in religion

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