Sentences with phrase «late modern humanity»

In any event, as I say, this is all only imagery — achingly nostalgic and suggestive imagery — meant only to depict a way of inhabiting the world that Heidegger believed was constitutive of our humanity but that late modern humanity has forgotten.

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The question to which he continually returned in his late work was not whether this was an accurate portrait of the modern situation but, rather, what the history had been that had led Western humanity to this point.

Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the latest link in a chain of ancestry that stretches back 5 to 7 million years to a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, humanity's two closest living relatives.

Artists like Warhol, Calder, Kandinsky, and O'Keeffe comment on humanity's intimate relationship with the cosmos, informed by modern technological advances of the late 19th and 20th centuries.

These landscapes, whether cityscape or the newly industrialised agricultural landscape — as with Ralston Crawford's featureless work of modern purity «Buffalo Grain Elevators», 1937 — are for the most part completely devoid of any human narrative, only later do we end with Edward Hopper's isolated figure, in his 1928 picture «From Williamsburg Bridge»; sitting in the window of an otherwise empty cityscape, framed by an expansive absence of humanity.