Understanding the Complexity of Defining 'Modern'

It is defined differently in various disciplinary contexts.

In the eighteenth-century with the secularization of knowledge about the human and material world.

The Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

<p>With the emergence of capitalist market economies following the British Industrial Revolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The invention of the printing press.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The development of free labor, universalist notions of culture, and abstract notions of equality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Derived from the Latin terms modernus and modo (meaning 'of today' and 'recently')</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the mid-eighteenth century with the rise of the European Enlightenment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As possessing an epochal character and promising a qualitative transformation from the past</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A distinctive orientation of thought toward the future rather than tradition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was no longer contrasted with 'antiquity' but instead with 'backwardness'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being most recent within the context of developmental linear time and grouping diverse phenomena into a single category</p> Signup and view all the answers