From: "Marcus Strom" <MSTROM-AT-nswtf.org.au>
Date:          Thu, 23 Nov 1995 09:56:50 GMT+10
Subject:       Re: one aspect of "modernity"


Lisa,

Baudelaire wrote an essay on Modernity around 1810???? In it, 
modernity is defined (from memory) as two sided - the "fleeting and 
ephemeral and the constant and stable" or something. It is quoted in 
a book called "The Condition of Postmodernity" by David Harvey. He is 
not a post modernist, but is a marxist. His purpose in this book is 
to uncover the material basis of cultural change and to bunk the 
postmodernists claims of a 'new change' and an end to 
'metanarratives'. He doesn't do it comprehensively, but it is a good 
start. I think it is worth a read if these are the issues you are 
looking at.





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