Modernism versus Modernity

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Modernism versus Modernity
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.052

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Abstract

When people use or hear the word modern, they usually understand it to refer to the present day or to that which is most up-to-date. For historians, it means something very specific in terms of periodization—that is, a span of time defined by a set of identifiable characteristics. Modernity describes the features of a global society that became recognizable during the nineteenth century and that continue to influence the way that people live today. Although the word sounds similar, modernism has a different meaning as a specific cultural movement that developed in reaction to key attributes associated with modernity.

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