Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

  • -- Theodor W. Adorno 狄奥多·阿多诺

现代性是一个定性的范畴,而不是一个时间的范畴。

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

现代性是短暂的、瞬息万变的、偶然的,构成了艺术的一半,而另一半则是永恒的、不可改变的。这一瞬息万变、瞬息万变的因素决不能轻视或忽视。

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

当国家与现代化作斗争时,落后的人们往往对现代化的罪恶持有越来越坚定的看法。