{"id":102,"date":"2010-04-12T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2010-04-12T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:12:55","slug":"seminar-on-modernity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/research\/seminar-on-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar on Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Seminar on Modernity has been the pedagogical center of the Institute. In the past, the  Seminar on Modernity has discussed the nature of national  consciousness, the nature of modern society, the nature of modern  politics and major political ideologies (liberalism, communism,  fascism); the nature of modern economy and of economic and social  modernization, the characteristics of modern passions (crisis of  identity, ambition, envy and other experiences related to anomie) as  expressed through imaginative literature, specifically modern novel and  poetry; modern epistemological approaches, in particular science, and  modern esthetic sensibilities (specifically Romanticism).<\/p>\n<p>During the academic year  2003-2004, the Seminar on Modernity was devoted to the consideration of  modern attitudes to death, sexuality and the body in general in the fall  semester and considered music as a modern art and as a method of  emotional exploration in the spring semester.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Seminar on  Modernity was devoted,  to such issues as the intellectual forms of racial prejudice; or the  evolution of knowledge. The current Seminar on Modernity is devoted to  the study  of Mental Illness.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, modern culture is  discussed in comparison to other cultures, which are presented by  specialists in the relevant fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seminar on Modernity has been the pedagogical center of the Institute. In the past, the Seminar on Modernity has discussed the nature of national consciousness, the nature of modern society, the nature of modern politics and major political ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism); the nature of modern economy and of economic and social modernization, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}