The Myth of Modernity
Ministry of Ideas
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The Word Cosmos Is a Key to Understanding 1492 and the Evolution of Modernity
Hickman argues that we should identify 1492 as the beginning of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment. He says colonialism forced many more people to live and work in shared spaces. Hickman: The secularism that European cultures developed was merely one local response to that global sea change.
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