George Scialabba Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: b. 1948
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.
source: Source: thenewinquiry.com
topic: Political, Intellectual, Different, Modernity, 17th Century
