Contemporary transformations are modernity’s self-radicalization, not its ending

Evidence

The disjunctions which have taken place should rather be seen as resulting from the self-clarification of modern thought, as the remnants of tradition and providential outlooks are cleared away. We have not moved beyond modernity but are living precisely through a phase of its radicalisation. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 127

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the facile post-modernity framing; the reader’s Stevens analysis depends on this — Stevens’s world isn’t post-something, it’s modernity radicalizing. — connects to: Modernity is defined by wholesale reflexivity, not merely love of the new. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 99; Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124; Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance (+9 more)

Related

• Modernity’s core is an irreducible enigma that cannot be overcome (similarity 0.86)
• Modernity is defined by wholesale reflexivity, not merely love of the new. (similarity 0.85)
• Radical break and continuity claims both fail without a temporal-analytic definition of modernity (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity is best understood as compulsive, self-propelling modernization, not a completed state (similarity 0.84)
• Modernity’s reflexivity rests on cultural commitment and power, not pure reason (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity consists in the destabilization of the subject, not mere progress (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity’s reflexivity subverts reason’s claim to certitude. (similarity 0.82)
• The modern’s present-absolute nature generates recurring postmodern markers (similarity 0.80)
• Postmodernism is best treated as a historical condition, not an ideas set. (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity names the felt conviction of newness that postmodernity has lost. (similarity 0.80)
• High modernism emerged in the space opened by radical social movements (similarity 0.80)
• Modernism doubted Being’s stability while postmodernism abandoned Being altogether (similarity 0.80)
• Postmodernity may be evolving toward its own dissolution (similarity 0.80)
• The feeling that systematic knowledge is impossible stems from uncontrollable modern events, not epistemology (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s core is an irreducible enigma that cannot be overcome #expands (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124
• Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling #expands (0.65) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124
• Postmodern theory’s claims of abandoned meaning serve an ideological role masking its own dominance #complicates (0.50)