NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance? CORRECTED

[alice wellintown]

Of course Armstrong is correct. The excerpt could be misread, so one might
think she fails to  attribute the term to Jaspers, but she does. Moreover,
she is quite familiar, as she notes in her works, with the uses and
controversial uses of the term.

On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

>
> Armstrong:
>
> "There was a similar transitional period in the ancient world, lasting
> roughly from 700 to 200 BCE, which historians have called the Axial Age
> because it was pivotal to the spiritual development of humanity."
>
> Not correct. It weren't historians yet the philosopher Karl Jaspers (see *Vom
> Ursprung und Ziel der Geschichte*) who minted the term Achsenzeit in
> 1949. And in later years the concept attracted rather social scientists
> (like Eisenstadt) than historians to whom the concept must appear highly
> speculative.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age
>
> An actual historian who thought a lot about this kind of concept in order
> to shed new light on modernity was Reinhart Koselleck who developed the
> term 'saddle time' (Sattelzeit) for the period between 1750 and 1850.
> Sounds M&Dish, right?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhart_Koselleck
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sattelzeit
>
> On 20.04.2013 22:23, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/armstrong-battle.html
> On Saturday, April 20, 2013, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>>  " But all of our experience suggests that it is not “fundamentalism”
>> alone but an aching tension between modernity and a false picture of a
>> purer fundamentalist past that makes terrorists."
>>
>>    This is Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker today about the marathon
>> bombers. Does this apply to any of P's characters in AtD?
>> Does this apply to P's vision? Is Hume's condemning what she sees as P's
>> moral failure in Against the Day, refuted, or attempted
>> to be seen (refuted) by P's vision of the cohesion of life in the Olde
>> Europe scenes---the communities of the villages?
>>
>>
>> Or, a few have remarked that DeLillo best captured the meanings and
>> understandings of the characters in our recent acts of local terror. True,
>> where?
>> You can answer this question instead.
>>
>> Extra credit for both.
>>
>>
>>
>
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