Even now when the limits of resources and problems of pollution have forced themselves on the attention of everyone, our
inheritance from modernity counts heavily against an adequate response.
While environmental themes were less prominent at the Sundance Film Festival this year, our correspondent JoAnn Valenti unearthed ecological messages from documentaries that explore the emergence of climate change refugees in the face of sea level rise, the escape
from modernity into wilderness and the confrontation of environmental threats by young innovators.
He covers also the varieties of modernist theologians, many ethnic groups who tried to stay
sheltered from modernity, the major denominational types, all sorts of countermodernist movements, and groups that sought to restore wholeness through physical or psychological therapies, ecumenism, social Christianity or patriotism.
Our task is to find a language for our need for belonging which is not just a way of expressing nostalgia, fear, and
estrangement from modernity.
«While reading, I noticed you made the correlation that Christianity has
evolved from modernity and now must evolve again into post-modernity.
What happens when we go deeper is that we see that globalization is part of a larger and broader concept of postmodernity — as an
emergence from modernity into an as yet defined era in history in which a distinctive rationality of plurality and fallibilism sets in.
Therefore any idea of a simple
return from modernity to tradition is to be ruled out, though redefinition of the traditional community - values relevant for the post-modern society is to be welcomed.
He says, «As the country has become more polarized, so has the church, and that's because he church is not different
enough from modernity.
The Lecture of the architect Fernando Lara will focus on balancing of the interest of Latin American countries in local traditions, in the character of the people and their culture and experimentation with new languages, architectural forms and
materials from modernity.
Taking on the central topic of museum culture, Bruno leads the reader on a series of architectural
promenades from modernity to our times.
Energies of the
absurd from modernity to contemporary art, MARTa Herford, DE Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College at Cambridge University, UK Good News!
Showroom: Post War & More Christo & Jeanne - Claude, Victor Vasarely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, furniture from Modernity
In a move that some pundits are calling a step
back from modernity, the Quebec judiciary has issued a ban as of April 15 on texting, tweeting, and all other forms of electronic communication from the courtroom during proceedings before the Court of Appeal of Quebec, the Superior Court of Quebec, and the Quebec Court.
In developing his argument against this fallacy, Whitehead's philosophy moves
away from modernity's logocentric assumptions of an underlying ontological reality to which linguistic expressions conform.
So Don's regressive behavior during this episode is neatly paralleled by Margaret's opt - out
from modernity and motherhood.
Other renowned authors have drawn together powerful analyses of these issues, with key examples being David Korten (The Great Turning), David Selby (Education and Climate Change), Basarab Nicolescu (
From Modernity to Cosmodernity), Duane Elgin (Deep Big History essay), Peter Senge (The Fifth Discipline), and Margaret Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science, to name a few.