9 - Modernity to Postmodernity Flashcards
Traditional vs Modern Societies
Theocentric (God in the middle) vs Anthropocentrism (individual)
Enchantment of the World vs Disenchanted world
Tradition vs Progress
Adherence to tradition vs Confidence in reason/science
What were the technological and economic changes in modernity?
Navigation developments, the discovery of the new world, and the first banks
Political changes in modernity?
Interconnection between territories, centralization, rise of the nation-state, and the beginning fo the state bureaucracy
What caused the cultural changes in modernity?
Protestant Reformation
Post-Modern Characteristics?
Individualization, Reenchantment of the world, egocentric individualism, elective biography
Why did the individual replace God as the “center of the universe”?
Religion lost relevance due to the advent of scientific explanations about how the world worked
Define Secular
The separation between state and religion
Is postmodernism secular or individualistic?
Individualistic; the individual only focus on their own goals, egoistic behavior
Enchantment of the world vs disenchantment of the world?
Enchantment of the world was the explanation of individuals in traditional societies. The explanations were that it was due to magic
The disenchantment of the world explained phenomena and individual through science as well as secularism. Religion began to lose its influence
Reenchantment of the world?
Postmodern belief, the idea is that people can believe in religions depending on their emotions, not rationality. I.e. individuals can move between religions freely.
Induce/Imposed biography
You follow the same patterns of behavior
Autonomous biography
People exercise their own freedom
Elective Biography
Many different options to choose from depending on your emotions
Which myth(s) symbolizes modernity?
Prometheus and Frankenstein (Modern Prometheus)
Which myth represents post-modernity?
Narcissus
