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The Modern Frame

The Modern Frame is a website is dedicated to exploring the uniqueness of the modern world, or what may be considered by some the post-modern world. It is not meant to be a tirade against modernity per se, nor is it intended to be an uncritical proponent thereof. Instead, this project seeks to assess, investigate, articulate, and sometimes evaluate, the modern contemporary world, seeking its goods and benefits but at the same time criticizing its failures and created problems.

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Change is the defining feature of history. By history, I mean human history; specifically, the history of the

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It is not an accident that the rise of democratic and republican forms of government in the modern period coincided with the rise of the public sphere of rational-critical debate.1 This is particularly clear in the case of America, ...

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Up to this point, I have considered the isolated self as a p...

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The phenomenon of the isolated self is best understood within the more general phenomena of communication struggles, breakdowns, and failures that characterize much contemporary debate.1 While in many ways the isolated self can be d...

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In a previous essay, I offered some thoughts on the state of contemporary debate in America. ...

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