Could someone explain how some Marxist thinkers may have felt about Modernism?
I think Modernism was a result of the same influence that created Marxism; the “unknowabiltiy” factor of Kant’s philosophy. “Embracing change and the present, modernism encompasses the works of thinkers who rebelled against nineteenth century academic and historicist traditions, believing the “traditional” forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated; they directly confronted the new economic, social and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernism To reject “tradition” would be just like a thinker in the era. “But despite errors, absurdities, and contradictions, Kant’s philosophy has exercised a tremendous influence upon human thinking for over a century and a half. It exhibits the roots of those weaknesses we have come to regard as characteristic of what is loosely called “the German philos
