Sentences with phrase «century nihilism»

Postmodernism challenges modernism which can be said to have begun with seventeenth - century mechanism, petrified with eighteenth - century rationalism, nineteenth - century positivism and twentieth - century nihilism.

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In a thematic introductory sentence, he states that «the claim to the exclusive status of being an owed victim constitutes one of the great moral nihilisms of this century.»

In this dark night of a century, a first fundamental lesson was drawn from the bowels of nihilism itself: Truth....

Still, if we keep our focus on the typically underexplored question of why the Great War continued, it seems to me that one has to take account of the nihilism, racism, and will - to - power that warped European high culture in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, making what now appear to be acts of civilizational suicide both rational and unavoidable.

I dare to believe that what I take to be the more fundamental analyses of the modern will prevail, and that the energies of the twenty - first century will go into reconstruction on new lines, rather than pressing toward the nihilism that is the final outcome of the modern.

Kramer fought against leftwing political bias in art criticism, and what he perceived as the aesthetic nihilism characteristic of many 20th century working artists and art critics.