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Europe, 1859 - In the Ebb and Flow of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Europe, 1859 - In the Ebb and Flow of Modernity (Hardcover)
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In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of
the new urban cultural and social world which would make him
described by a number of historians as the first modern. Indeed, it
is he who coined the term 'modernity'. In the east, Ivan Turgenev
with On the Eve begins reflections about Russia and modernity which
would result in his next novel, set in 1859, Fathers and Sons. The
latter still resonates today. In Switzerland, Jacob Burckhardt is
inventing the Renaissance as a means of understanding what is
happening in his own time. Indeed, we never talked about a
Renaissance until Burckhardt published his The Civilization of the
Renaissance in Italy in 1860, something he wrote in order to better
understand his own times. In the West, several important and
central works of European culture are being written in England by
both British writers and exiles. Marx is researching Das Capital
and writing A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.
Mazzini is writing his major work on modern nationalism, The Duties
of Man, just as Italy is beginning its decade of unification and
the European map is beginning a period of extraordinary change.
John Stuart Mill published his On Liberty in early 1859, still the
work that is the modern ground of democratic ideas dealing with the
relationship between liberty and authority. And in November 1859
one of the dozen or so most influential works of all of European
history and science, one that shattered many pre-modern concepts,
The Origin of Species, was published by Charles Darwin. The
thinkers who were prominent at the time were, in a full sense,
public intellectuals. Their works were read, debated, applauded,
feared, defended and scorned in the public forums, what
philosophers sometimes called the marketplace. It was in 1859 that
modernity, the world as we now know it, gets confronted and
encountered. As a result concepts and ideas we still use, then new,
get thought about and become part of the public discourse. From
this point on, the dialogue is forever transformed.
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