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Definitional Excursions: The Meanings of Modern/Modernity/Modernism

Author(s) -

Susan Stanford Friedman

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

modernism/modernity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 20

eISSN - 1080-6601

pISSN - 1071-6068

DOI - 10.1353/mod.2001.0062

Subject(s) - modernity , modernism (music) , field (mathematics) , categorization , aesthetics , multidisciplinary approach , epistemology , sociology , history , philosophy , social science , mathematics , pure mathematics

What is modernity? What is or was modernism? Why is the energetic, expanding, multidisciplinary field of modernist studies so filled with contestation over the very ground of study? Definitional activities are fictionalizing processes, however much they sound like rational categorization. As such, I will begin with three stories, allegorized but rooted in my own experience in an evolving field.1

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