Modernism and Modernity
Keywords:
modernism and modernity, consciousness of historicity as an ever reinterpreting fact, concept of detotalized truthAbstract
The article delimitates the concept of modernity and the period term modernism. Modernity, the quality of being modem, applies to a much wider span of time than modernism and its meaning went through certain phases of change in its history. Special consideration is given to some of the most important interpretations of modernity (Calinescu, Vattimo, de Man) and the most delicate shifts in the meaning of the notion of modernity that occurred in the second half of the 19th century are thoroughly reconsidered. Reinterpretation of modernity by Baudelaire and the philosophical views of Nietzsche were due to the changes in thoughts and arts at the end of postromanticism that brought to the event of modernist movements. This modification in the meaning of modernity implies consciousness of historicity as an ever reinterpreting fact, and consequently, the concept of truth was detotalized what finally brought to the establishment of modernism and its artistic structure.References
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