Modernity’s defining revolution was the destruction of appearances, not political liberation

Evidence

The true revolution of the nineteenth century, of modernity, is the radical destruction of appearances, the disenchantment of the world and its abandonment to the violence of interpretation and of history. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 520

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts Weber’s Entzauberung/disenchantment thesis by recasting it as the ‘violence of interpretation and history’ — a revision of a canonical social-theory claim. — connects to: Modernism’s aesthetic withdrawal from reality was a retreat from politics — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 216

Broader Connections

• Modernism’s aesthetic withdrawal from reality was a retreat from politics #complicates (0.82) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 216