Modernism--the break down of certainty

During the late 19^th century and early 20^th century, there was a reaction to the Enlightenment ideals.  Below are some of my notes from our Digital Civilizations discussion on modernism:

·         Reaction to Enlightenment ideals > rationality

·         Reaction to positivism > truth

·         Lack of certainty

·         Lack of faith in progress

·         War—industrialized war

·         Relativity—Freud

·         Perspectivism—Nietzscher: morals based on perspective and circumstances—dangerous

·         Art for art’s sake—formal (playing with form), detached, rhetorical)

·         God’s role replaced with art and science

·         Surrealism, Expressionism (nonrepresentational—doesn’t look like—throw back to Romanticism)