When did we start being modern? Time, space, literacy and communication in early modern Europe - Couverture souple

Alessandra Squeo; Silvia Silvestri

 
9791259656490: When did we start being modern? Time, space, literacy and communication in early modern Europe

Synopsis

This volume grows out of the CIRM international Conference held at the University of Bari on 17-18 October 2024, which brought together scholars from diverse disciplinary and institutional backgrounds to reconsider the multifaceted notion of modernity. Rather than advancing a single, unified definition of modernity, the contributions here collected explore how its meanings have been articulated, negotiated, and contested across different disciplines, genres, and media. Each essay demonstrates that modernity does not unfold evenly or uniformly, but refracts through distinct intellectual, aesthetic, and material practices, generating multiple and sometimes conflicting trajectories of change. By placing these perspectives in dialogue, the volume invites readers to reflect on what it has meant, and what it continues to mean, to orient oneself within the temporal, epistemic, and cultural horizons of the modern world.

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