FS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tom Tykwer, General Idea, Late Capitalism
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Age of enlightenment/reason ( long 18thc: 1685 1815) Ren descartes (1596 1650: cogito ergo sum i think; therefore, i am . Isaac newton (1643 1727: nature is governed by laws (e. g. , gravity, fricion, humans are logical beings, inding laws + reason for relaionships between occurrences. Immanuel kant (1724 1804: the mind imposes structures on reality. Knowledge assumed to be objecive and good: rise of universiies, publishing, natural history, public spaces. Humans can know the world in an objecive, ixed way. Late 1800s, scholars begin to reject age of enlightenment. Modernism (late 19th c. early 20th c. ) Mass producion (factory labour) poor condiions. Friedrich nietzche (1844 1900: fundamental truths cannot be known and do not exist, no 2 bits of the world are alike, knowledge is a human creaion, an illusion, modernism in art. May or may not be making reference to real world items. Reject art altogether arists/art is eliist.
