Rise of Modernity
November 5th, 2022
In an essay of 1000 words or more, answer the following questions. You should cite the sources you use according to the Chicago Manual of Style complete with footnotes and a bibliography. To what extent must modernism depend on early modern “mechanistic” thought from the Scientific Revolution? What is modern about Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Freud, and Sartre, and where does it come from? How is Dostoevsky’s underground man a specifically modern character? Based on the texts assigned in this course, what is modernism? What contributed to its development, and what impulses drove the process?