HIST 121 Study Guide - Final Guide: Perspectivism, A Priori And A Posteriori, Unthinkable
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Week 11: modernism and beyond: the self in the modern world. Variety of ideologies and backgrounds have different takes on the modernist movement. Deeply concerned about the effects of technology, the industrial revolution and tries to think of solutions to the problems that arose. *space and time: shrinking of time and space (trains and ideology helped with this, trains universal time clock. *mechanization: humans became increasingly reliant on machines. Increasing replacement of humans with machines: anxiety about machines and mechanical devices are everywhere. *the rise of the masses: lots of people out there whose politics, and desires cannot be controlled and begin to invade the thinking of philosophers artists, writers, etc, a lot more people around you. *secularization: what would religion be replaced with, fyodor dostoyevsky, the crystal palace in russia. He saw the crystal palace as something terrifying. Wanted to capture the fear in his writing. A symbol of the secular paradise that man would achieve from socialism.
