Modernity and post-modernity

Modernity and post-modernity

Modernity and post-modernity

Modernity and post-modernity

Modernity is the intellectual and cultural heritage of the Enlightenment project, namely the rejection of traditional and religious sources of authority in favor of reason and knowledge as the road to human emancipation (Routledge, 2007). It has produced a variety of social, political, and economic developments, including democratization and consumerization. Despite its oft flaunted antipathy to Christianity, it inherited one of its most cherished dogma, the concept of progress.

Post modernity refers to the progressive loss of confidence in the enlightenment project since 1945, which accelerated in the seventies and eighties as ...