The Myth of Modernity

The Myth of Modernity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9781317575474
ISBN-13 : 1317575474
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Download or read book The Myth of Modernity written by Charles Baudouin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1950, this is a late work by Charles Baudouin, world-famous French psychologist, and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress, characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, into the myth of Modernity, characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress, he says, had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things, but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself, reasons for unhappiness, inasmuch as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man’. This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire, Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch, The Prestige of Action, Technique versus Mysticism, Opinion and Tolerance, etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this stimulating book, now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.


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