Sensurile modernităţii. Dinspre modernitatea iluministă înspre modernitatea estetică a secolului al XX-lea
Modernity and its Meanings. From the Modernity in the Age of Enlightenment Towards the Aesthetic Modernity of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to discuss the historical variation concerning the meanings of Modernity, seen as a wide-ranging cultural concept. There are several meanings of this concept described as such in the study and also presented in their close interaction: “philosophical modernity” (i.e. the age of reason in the European intellectual history), “bourgeois modernity” (concerning two aspects – social modernity and political modernity – aspects that have shaped the institutions in the Western society), “critical modernity” (represented, as Paul Ricoeur stated, by the three “masters of suspicion”, K. Marx, S. Freud and in particular Fr. Nietzsche, the philosopher who announced “the Death of God” and, through this announcement he broke new ground for radical criticism of the European Traditional background), and “aesthetic modernity” (the modernity of arts).

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