Browse — tag · modernity
Tag: modernity
Pages tagged with modernity.
5 pages
-
Aftermath of the Absolute
Malraux's structural-historical thesis (Part IV title and §V theme of The Voices of Silence): with the eclipse of religion as the West's organizing absolute, art itself has been promoted to the structural position the absolute occupies. Th…
-
Crisis of the European Sciences
Husserl's diagnosis, in the Crisis (1936/1954), of a crisis that is not a crisis of the sciences' rigour or success but of their meaning for human life. The positive sciences flourish; what has collapsed is their bearing on the "problems o…
-
Europe as the Crisis of Play
Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter
-
Europe as the Crisis of Play
Chouraqui's hypothesis (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) about the essence of European modernity: that it is the cultural invention of seriousness, and therefore that Europe is best defined as the graveyard of play. Europe is not a…
-
The Play-Element (Huizinga)
Johan Huizinga's concept (from Homo Ludens, 1938), as deployed by Chouraqui in "Europe as the Crisis of Play" (2025): play is the primary, unitary "mental continuum" out of which civilization gradually carves the separated modes of playful…