La Mélancolie et l’aspect spatio-temporel de l’identité dans Le pion sur l’échiquier d’Irène Némirovsky by Liudmyla Parfeniuk

“…The narrative mode of understanding is seen as having the potential to open up a middle way between the totalising exclusions of modernity and the nihilism of postmodernity. However, some voices have pointed to the totalising tendencies of narrative theories, which place too much emphasis on integration and synthesis. …”
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Des semis et des clones by Malou Delplancke, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas

“…Rooted in time and space, an almond tree is a link between generations, between the living and the forebears, tradition and modernity, but also between what originates from here (beldi) and what comes from elsewhere (romi). …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

“…In my book, The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity and Globalization, I devoted Chapter 10 to his oeuvre, stating in one of the key paragraphs that: 268 Toyin Falola In connecting West Africa to the Atlantic economy, Ogundiran is pointing to what could be characterized as the metabolic rift between supply and demand; African economies were on the supply side of the global division of labor that compelled them to produce for the Atlantic economy and, at the same time, to consume products from external sources. …”
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Redefining Freedom. Digital Capitalism and Private Property by N. B. Afanasov

“…In cultural sense property was a central phenomenon that gave a definition to modernity. The author demonstrates that in this sense property was always more than just a simple presupposition of goods accumulation. …”
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Museographic narrating of dissonant heritage in Tianjin’s former international concessions by Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Chensi Shen

“…The article captures and examines the main narratives from three perspectives: 1) revisiting the concession period as evidence of the beginning of modernity in China, which was a time in which celebrity life stories and the emergence of modern urban elements were praised; 2) considering the concessions as a dreamlike past of ‘others’ and ‘elsewheres’ belonging to a ‘foreign land’ and a context far removed from contemporary life in China, which favours the thematisation and leisure of Western architecture; and 3) selecting and targeting narratives focused on the heroes of the Republic of China (1912–1949) and the People’s Republic of China. …”
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Romantic balticphilia in Latvian istoriography by Zenonas Butkus

“… In this article it is shown that romantic Balticphilia (a historical, cultural concept of the authors who treat the past of the Balts, the first Paganism, as a separate, civilized, closed system, putting it in opposition to Western, Christian culture) takes root in Lithuanian historiography and doesn't induce its modernity, nor its overthrowing of historicism; it only weakly influences Latvian historiography. …”
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PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION AND TRANSHUMANISM: EXPLICATIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY by O. V. Marchenko, P. V. Kretov

“…The content of the powerful potential of information philosophy for the development of philosophical anthropology approaches to the phenomena of the human world determined by the technological nature of civilization and the powerful sociocultural issues of modernity have been clarified. The threats of the dehumanization of the problem field in the modern science and spheres of applied digital technologies associated with transhumanism, interpreted as an ideology, are underlined. …”
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Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract by Alan Díaz Alva

“…One of Yuk Hui’s central concerns is the decline of technodiversity as a result of the globalisation of Western technological monoculture throughout capitalist modernity. As the call for contributions rightly points out, the fields of architecture and urbanism have not yet properly addressed their implication in this process. …”
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Portrayal of Tradition and Culture in the Novel the Moon also Sets by Osi Ogbu. by Tusiimeruhanga, Brendah

“…His works especially The Moon Also Sets reflected the social and political upheavals of postcolonial Nigeria portraying the nation's struggle with the legacies of colonialism and the challenges of modernization. The novel captured the essence of Nigerian life with vivid detail, highlighting the resilience of its people. …”
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Beethovens Violinkonzert als Modellfall. René Leibowitz’ und Rudolf Kolischs Projekt einer ›werkgerechten Interpretation‹ by Thomas Glaser

“…Against the background of their aesthetics of music, shaped by twentieth-century musical modernity, their study of Beethoven provides the opportunity to focus on one part of the performance history of Beethoven’s works. …”
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Centralized and local legal regulation of labor relations: problems of correlation and development by V. S. Venediktov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…Attention has been drawn to the fact that modernity requires ensuring the development of collective contractual regulation of labor relations. …”
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Protection of personal data of the employee by S. M. Gusarov, K. Yu. Melnyk

“…Today, the use of various telecommunication systems and automated databases in this process increases the risks of disclosure of the employee’s personal information, which may cause him material or moral harm. So, modernity presents authorized state bodies and employers with the task of ensuring reliable protection of personal data of employees. …”
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The crisis of the concept of society: historiosophical and sociological search by Irena Eglė Laumenskaitė

“…The postmodernity itself breaks the correspondence of "social physics" (organizational structures) with "social metaphysics" (system of values) as it produces a pluralistic (not hierarchical) "metaphysics" while keeping a hierarchy in "physics," where the subordination of the individual to the social structures is even stronger than in the era of modernity. This challenge appears together with another one—the necessity of founding a democratic national state (consolidating the nation on the basis of common aims when the interest of community is destroyed by the negative experience of communist collectivity)—the present situation of European unification. …”
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EVOLUTION OF THE PHENOMENON OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE WESTERN EUROPE by L. Y. Maximova

“…This article analyzes the history of the development of the phenomenon of citizenship in Western Europe, from Antiquity to the Modernity. The analysis uses the binary opposition method, which is the basis for including individuals in or out of citizenship. …”
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"ANAPUS KANTO": M. FOUCAULT NAUJOJI MORALĖS GENEALOGIJA by Jūratė Baranova

“…Notwithstanding his Antikantianism Foucault is not so ardent critic of Modernity as Alasdair MacIntyre. In Kant?s attitude toward present elaborated in the article What is Enlightenment? …”
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Çin Siyasi Düşüncesi ve Siyasi Tarihi Bağlamında Çinli Siyasi Elitler by Tuğrul Keskin

“…This comparative approach offers insights into the broader implications of modernization and elite politics within a global context. …”
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Territorios rurales en transformación: desafíos y oportunidades frente al reto de la despoblación by Néstor Vercher

“…The articulation between these elements is key to population retention and settlement strategies, ensuring that the balance between identity and modernity does not result in an irreversible loss of the territorial and social fabric. …”
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Territorios rurales en transformación: desafíos y oportunidades frente al reto de la despoblación by Néstor Vercher

“…The articulation between these elements is key to population retention and settlement strategies, ensuring that the balance between identity and modernity does not result in an irreversible loss of the territorial and social fabric. …”
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