HCJ - Modernism

Modernism is a campaign against Romanticism and the Enlightenment. Modernists believe in the famous term "God is Dead", and music is the everything to them. Nietzsche claims Zarathustra is the overman and he believes highly in the philosophy of individualism where you make your own rules, obey your own rules to live by and more importantly, think for yourself. Nietzsche is completely against democracy. There is no racialism in any of Nietzsche's works as he is against the heard morality.

Women in modernism play a massive role, and modernists believe highly in particle of physics where they believe everything is made of nothing. Modernists believes the centre of modernism has shifted from Europe to America, and now to Asia. This backs Thomas Koone's idea of the Paradime which is a change in culture.

The term 'modernism' is also used to refer to the art of the modern period. More specifically, modernism can be thought of as a reference to modern art philosophies. The birth of modernism lies in history, further back than the first believed origins of the 19th century. Historians believe the modern period actually begins in the 16th century, starting what is called the Early Modern Period, which goes all the way until the 18th century. Modernism emerges during the Reanissance period when through the study of art and music, humanists revived the belief that man, rather than God, is the centre of all things that exist.

In the 18th century, the Enlightenment saw the intellectual maturation of the human belief in reason as the major form of guidance for humans. Through reason, the mind achieved enlightenment, and for someone with an enlightened mind, a whole new, exciting world opened. Enlightenment thinking saw the human race striving towards universal, moral and intellectual self-realisation. It was believed that access to truth came through reason, and the knowledge of truth would effectively better mankind. It is in the ideals of the Enlightenment that the roots of modernism, and the new role of art can be found. If we are clean of the corruptions of religion and politics by reason, then education brings us the truth or at least shows us how to make it to the truth. Education enlightens us and makes us into better people and therefore educated people will form the foundations of a new society, a society created through own efforts.

As a young man, Nietzsche embraced music and classics a lot. Wagner embraced atheism and immoralism. Wagner had been an exile for twenty years and was the author of many musical pieces. When Nietzsche found Wagner, it became a revolution of profound social and sexual kinds for him as he became obsessive with Cosima, an attractive woman. If Wagner gave life to Nietzsche's sexual understanding, he failed to convince Nietzsche of his own sense that man is "redeemed" through love of women.
While Nietzsche understood the sexual 'energy', he sees relationship as war. The theme of modernism is everywhere. "Wagner is the modern artist par excellence" but "Wagner's art is sick". Does Nietzsche talk about Wagner himself or modernism as a whole subject?