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This 4 page paper examines the two movements and argues that modernism is more revolutionary. Two sources by Nietzsche are used in the analysis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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are decidedly different from one another. The Enlightenment is a well known time in history and spanned more than a century. It emanated in Europe and spread to the New
World. There was the French Revolution and the American Revolution and it seemed as if things would change for the better. Religion was out. Science was in, and the people
would be proud of their accomplishments. Cultural and Artistic Modernism would emerge at the tail end of this era. The Enlightenment was a significant time in history. It
was when religious thought would go by the wayside in favor of scientific ideas. Art would come into its own and political thought would applaud democracy. The Declaration of the
Rights of Man would support such ideas. It was something that was meant to be revolutionary in political thought and important historically. Yet, in 1791, only two years after the
Declaration was published, an early feminist by the name of Olympe de Gouges would write something to add to the Declaration. This was something that would demonstrate that indeed, men
and women were equal. While hard core feminism would not come until later, the enlightenment did demonstrate that feminism was emerging. In the Declaration, Gouges (1791) writes: " Woman is
born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions can be based only on common utility" (p.87). It was also a time when attention to the individual began
to emerge. Down the road, Sigmund Freud (1965) would point to the problem that the ego faces. Of course, it is important to note that prior to this time, little
attention was given to psychology or to individual needs. Interestingly, much later in history in the 1980s, people dubbed it the "me" decade, but clearly, attention to self started much
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