I was at Cambridge. Um, and you feel like they almost understood something that has been lost to us now in modernity that they believed and felt in a way that was much more pure and muchmore direct and unmediated that um is almost no longer accessible to us. Yeah.
think that the notion that we can save the world has gained currency in modernity most influential strands of modernity it's probably the mostconsequential period in Western history they affirmed kind of basic convictions like the basic
can be must be and will be found now modernity 's Faith in infinite progress and in the one way to put it would befinal solution or the end of History never lacked critics and
versial statement and I'm happy to of course discuss it afterwards with you in the course of modernity we have made our greatest Temptation into the chief goal of ourlives and major purpose of our institutions of the state of the market of the science of Technology of
Education now famous German contemporary philosopher by the name of Peter Slaughter has said that modernity is is an age in which only the world can be the case that is to saythere is no Transcendent uh reality outside of the world you can also say that modernity is
inspire me was the place where sort of all these conflicts of tradition and modernity of family public and private we're all being played out felt to me onthe streets of rego park and in some ways of course it would be so obvious to set an updated Anna Karenina and their
one -- I would say it is a good one, because it's fundamentally based around choice. Modernity . And this, I think, is the big category mistake.This is the huge mistake which most of the apostles of secularization made.
They identified modernity with secularism. And it isn't. Modernity is really about pluralism. It's about the ability to sit there and decide and choose, "I'm going to be this," "I'm going to be that," or "I'm going to be whatever.”And that I think is the core liberal thing to do it.
want choices. They want to have choices, options in life, as many choices as we can get. And like it's it is a hallmark of modernity that we are overwhelmed with choices. We have never had more choices in terms of what to do with our time, what to pay attention to. Yeah. But that, I think, has not made us happier. I think it has
to reflect on what are these ideas that are coming out of this experience of looking at this material with. So modernity becomes a very obvious question to ask. One way to think about it, without overloading it with existing definitions-- some of which again rise one day and are taken down the next, is to think of it as change.
A decline in religious certainty has been one of the characteristic features of modernity . in the arrival of modernity .
So this is sort of a red line that you can find throughout the 10,000 to 12,000 years that we are exploring in the gallery. Then we move to modernity , and there, you would see that in the museum, there is an acceleration, even that you feel in our bones because, of course, from archaeology to contemporary, there is different-- more material to show, by definition.
The notion of governance is at the center of the Chinese understanding of politics and political modernity . The third element-- time is running, I am aware of that-- which is, to a certain extent, more important than economy
of climate change denial by the American right, which brought together the economic interests of certain parts of corporate America with the cultural anti-modernity of the evangelical religious right. While some media outlets, such as the BBC, have worked hard-- and in a way which has often been terribly
unconditioned happiness. Now, here's an interesting thing, everybody. Prior to modernity , prior to the rise of the sciences, the principal question that preoccupied the minds of the best and brightest people in the West was the nature of .
bold move to take and what gave I think plausibility to this bold move is uh the singular achievement of modernity and singular achievement of modernity was I think discovery of the method that assured scientific Pro progress and consequently also technological
um one of those critics was fredi nich and I want to build on some of nich's critique of modernity in preface it by a statement that kind of sums up both what I want to say where me nature is going to lead me and that is that an irreparable fissure runs through the
And nobody notices, and nobody really cares because these people are very old and near death. who have access to modernity .
So when in times of war, on either side, there are groups who are fighting. It's only in modernity that we separate private life and professional life.
Book two-- again, these books are separate books that discuss different topics linked to that original idea that I gave you. Book two is about modernity , how suddenly you start having policies that try to control, touristify the world, where you have a plan, you have everything is smooth, no randomness in life.
decline I'm calling the civilizing process. The name comes from a classic book by the German sociologist, Norbert Elias, who argued that in the transition from middle ages to modernity , Europe underwent consolidation of central states and kingdoms, out of the patchwork of baronies, principalities and duchies, with it criminal justice was nationalized and the constant feuding among the war lords of the era, otherwise known as knights, gave way to the king's justice. At the same time, there was a growing infrastructure of commerce.
past four centuries of modernity shows repeatedly this this same cycle where fun these fundamentalisms come into play
dividing camps in modernity two divided camps uh the sort of theological party and the uh the enlightenment party in
This is the huge mistake which most of the apostles of secularization made. They identified modernity with secularism. And it isn't. Modernity is really about pluralism. It's about the ability to sit there and decide and choose, "I'm going to be this," "I'm going to be that," or "I'm going to be whatever.”
And I hope I don't disappoint. I'm speaking about Egyptian modernity and some of my work in the next 35 minutes or so. I know you won't.
And maybe one example of this is going back to "Al Emara" magazine and Sayed Karim. There is a pressure to constantly read modernity with a very heavy narrative, that it's something that is owned by a certain group of people, that is then exported and spread through different mechanisms.
And I'm very pleased to see, it's about connection. Louvre Abu Dhabi is not about the modernity of art today. It is about this long story.
it is an effort by the Chinese intellectuals to reinterpret Chinese classical tradition in order for China to enter her own modernity . This intellectual and cultural metamorphosis is about this process of reinvention of Chineseness and reinterpretation of the Chinese classical tradition.
So there's something about modernity that's desperately dislocated us from this thing called a good night of sleep.
But then it represented the advent of modernity because you took a product, corn, and you ran it through five miles of conveyor belts,
So not all of this modernity was necessarily very progressive.
to give it that sheen of modernity .
that they weren't disturbed by modernity before they were studied, or that the anthropologists got things wrong.
what Berger calls a "category mistake." Modernity doesn't so much secularize as it pluralizes, right? And, indeed, what numbers show right now is that there's, there's religion, as
surrounded by a lot of modernity which is very interesting.
their faith less rich? Was their faith um less real than the faith of someone who is a kind of nerdy dork Christian in modernity like myself who, you know, reads a bunch of books and goes to school. Um, you know, you stand in the shadows of those cathedrals in Europe, which I did while I was in grad school.
working on the question of modernism in the Arab region, specifically Egypt. And then that takes me to wider questions of modernism and modernity in the Global South. So time, space, and objects of Egyptian modernity , these words will guide the rest of the talk.
And so there's this idea that the politics of modernity is not the politics of the republic.
Use our own languages to create our own modernity ?
In my narrative-- and it is very important I weight my words-- China is on the path to create her own political modernity . And if you want to understand what this Chinese political modernity means, I think it is very important to have in mind, to discuss, and to think about the dichotomy-- good governance, bad governance.
Don't get me wrong. But we tend to bracket the question that prior to modernity , the best and brightest people thought was the most important. What is this that all of us, at least implicitly, are seeking?
his uh apology and his his death um the someone can you maybe relate when it comes like to modernity relationships with people that we don't know and I'll
--though certainly halting and incomplete-- is that violence of all kinds is decreasing. This I believe calls for a rehabilitation of the concept of modernity and progress and it's cause for gratitude for the institutions of civilization and enlightenment that have made it possible. Thank you very much. Thank-you. Thanks very much.
"Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity " and both of those books are in fact parts of series and I'd been asked to write about them so
And above all, actually, you see Islam. Islam is -- I don't buy any of those sort of Eurabia theories from the neocons -- but the basic idea is, Islam is posing questions, Hence I would still argue in favor of modernity being understood as secularism in terms of
I like nostalgic things, and bringing that into modernity in a way that really melds effortlessly.
It's hard to explain how I view the past through the lens of modernity .
And that will have to do with who is looking and what we're looking at. So this is more a framing of how I approach this question of modernity or modernism or modern design in general, but however approach to in the context of Egypt.
and a particular kind of political setting. And so finally, what's modernity ? I guess after this little bit of a tour of ideas, as I'm flipping the page, moving forward to Latin America as a main focus of my interest and study,
He might not have been happy, and sometimes life might have been rubbish, but he was certain that there was a plan and that purpose was defined by god. A decline in religious certainty has been one of the characteristic features of modernity . And I don't mean that people stopped being religious, and religious belief continues.