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    Tn MP. dA lntéves 2 S Benbabdle ede (48D Yebewrao e He Unfemsthed Prepcl- S] Mecdonsly, Mit Pres 1 MODERNITY: AN UNFINISHED PROJECT. Jiérgen Habermas Following the painters and the film-makers, the architects have now been admitted co the Venice Biennale as well ‘The response to this the fie architecture Biennale, was one of dsappointnene. “The participants who exhibited in Venice formed an avantgarde With the fonts revered. Under the slogan of he presence of the Dist they sscifced the tradition of modenisy in the name of 3 few species of historic: “The face tha the entire modern move iment vwar rosined through it engagement ith the pasty tht Hrank Lloyd Wright would be inconesivable without Japon, Le Corbusier without clafeal atiguisy and. Mediterranean architee ‘ae and Mies van det Robe wichou Schinkel and Behrens alti is passed over in silence” With this remark W. Pein sheer on the Frankfurter ‘Allgemeine. Zeitung, suppors is claim, one which provides a signiicane diagnosis of our umes over and beyond ite {ital occasion: ‘Postmodern deisely presents ef at» form of ‘Antimoderniy” "This claim hold for an affective tend which has seeped into the pores of every intlleesal domain and given rie to varous theories Gf por-Halightenment) of postnederiy, of pos-history and. 50 Tot in shore toa nvr kind of conservation. Adorno an his work stand in marked contrast to this tend. So unseervedly did Adormo subscribe to the apc of modecnity that inthe very atemp to distinguish authensie modernity fom mete oder he gl esd the afeive pone fo he aon of ‘modernity ise It may not cerfore be an eaurely inappropriate ‘way of expressing my fetitude for rctving the Adorno Prize i 1 Drive she question concerning the current attude with respect fo, ‘oderaiy. I modeety a8 passé a the posmoderitsarpse? Or =] the widely trumpeted artial of postmoderity ise "phany’? Is ‘postmodern’ 2 slogan which sinobtruively inherits the alfetive | | MODERNITY: AN UNFINISHED PROJECT 39 aside which eae meray bat povled in action to al See the mile of he intent cnr? a ‘The Old and the New Anyone who, ike Adomo, consies of modernity’ a8 beginning ‘round 150 is perceiving it through the eyes of Baudelaire and Svuntgarde at Let me elucidate this concept of eultural modeeity ‘with a brief look atts long prehistory, which, has already been. ilsminated by Hans Robert fase The word "moda was st tmployed inthe Ite Sith century inorder to disinguih the peat, Siw offtaly Chin, from he pagan and Roman past. Wah ¢ Aiferene content in each case, the expression moderiy epentedly Seles the omnes ac th a of lascal alga preciey inorder to comprehend isl asthe ret ‘fa tanation ftom the old to the new. This ot merely tse fot erRenaiwance, with which the ‘ode age begins forms people Sse considered themselves a modean inthe age of Charlemagne, in She tel century, and inthe Ealighenment™= in shore, whenever the consciounest of 3 new era developed ie Europe though ‘eed relationship to asia ansguty In the proces culminsting Iie celebrated qurelle der ancens ef des modeme, the diapate ‘wth de peoagonsts of clamicnie axe tne in Inte seven feenth-entary France it wat alias vtigutas, the casial worl, ‘which wa regarded asthe normative movel to be imitated. Te was only the French Enlightenment tea of perfection and the ides, Stared by modem scenes of the infite progres of knowledge and the advance towards socal and moral improvement that gradually lied the spll exercised onthe spr of these early modes by the ‘lasical works of antiquity. And aly in opposing the lasical and fhe romante to one another, moderiy sought own pain a idealized vision of the Middle Ages. Inthe couse ofthe nineteenth ennary dis Romantic produced radicalized consciousness of ‘modernity that detached fae fom all previous hitoneal connection 94 undone rly in abwractopposton fo aon and Sistory ata whole "At this juncere, what was considered modern was what assisted he spontancouly aie stoial contemporanity of the “Zeng 10. Bd) own objecive expression. The chacectersie {eatte of ich wot ithe momen of tovely che New, which il elf be sugpaed gad devalued i tun by the innovations ofthe ‘ears Ve wheles the merely mod becomes oumoded once Ib Goplced ovo the pa Ge modern sil reais a secret Connection to the Casal” The ‘clash away ignied that mo JORGEN HABERMAS ‘hich endures throughthe ages. The emphatically ‘moder? artic prodctno longer deives is power from the authoiy of spas age, Ere owes solely tothe auchenticy ofa contemporary relevance thar has now become past. This tansformation of comtemporny relevance into a relevance now past has both a destructive and ontuctive sept. As Juss hat observed, is modernity elf that ‘ent sown clascl stator = thus we ea spel today Of ‘lassie oder’ aif such an expresion were obviows. Adorno opposes ar stamped diincon fetween modem and ‘mode because he believes that ‘without the characters subjective mental Ay inpited bythe New no objective modesty can eae asl.” “The Mentality of Aesthetic Moderity The geal of ae motemiy bens tae shape cla ‘WA Baul and wis teary of synced awa bY Exe Ala Pos i hen unfolded the sant ends anise more ‘eis tn ly anaed rach wi elles Bae tie Cale Voie Ti menay charac by 3 eof Situs which devoped aro © wtaoraed ems ok Sine ft comlomar tan expan oul the pal ‘metaphor of the svantgnrde~ tht isn avantgatde that exlores iti saloon, expos false ak ofa aed Siping mecoome conteat as yet unite Ee ae ints therefore Br a ph for tl in peviosy uncharted domain. Bir fated ection ti acer of a ine sed ‘out fe tel of be New which scons ie ‘ny sents he cae ofS Stern ta pet ‘edly ges bir to new and subjectively deBned pst. This new (arcs ie hh al nd wy py pa exes i tas the experi a mld say, ‘Fan accelerate atry of the dsrupaon of evaryday Ue The ne Sau whch now screed oe Eger he omen ard Wy ani ie coco casa eae, Sipe peed the yest fr ning tnd teal pre SPS icgring non motel oa ening be oe pstotr' Tks stony to ctv Bat See tt os Fest modernist writers = "rd po he abst oppoition of modest hiory, wich thus od te sce obese prove of aud TGnolndoncnutog cn lata pes Ise hor Site earth the potent now ates» ee ay Sih wih wba © mo meno of wat feu wo edd ‘eps lll inlay ip he Geta the wid and te MODERNITY: AN UNFINISHED PROJECT 4 primitive. The anarchic intention of exploding the continuum of Etsory acounes forthe subversive force ofan aesthete consciousness which eebels against che normgiving achievements of tradition, Which is nourished on the experience of rebellion against everything ormative, which aeuvalier considerations of moral goodness Palctcal wally, + conowsness which continsally sages dete Gf esoterie mystery and eeandalou offence, natcotcally fascinated ly the fight produced by is acs of profenation and yer at the ‘ime time fee from the sivalization resuling from thst very proanation. Tha is why for Adorno ‘he wounds inflicted by disruption represent the seal of authen- ‘cy for modernity, the very thing through which modernity ‘lsperately cgater the ‘closed ‘character of the etemally Savariang the set of explosion is elf one of the invariants of ‘modernity. The zeal deeced agaist the tadison becomes 4 ‘lvouring masstrom. In this sense modernity mh turned gaint tell che tinelssoess of myth becomes the catastrophe ffthe moment which dsrapt al temporal contin." ‘The consciousness of tine articulated in avantgarde arti not simpy an antiorical one, ofcourse Foe i drcred oy against hela nocmatny of hixorcal understanding ese one towards the imitation of pat modes, something which has aot been tsrrelycliinated even in Gadamer®s philosophical hermeneutic. ‘This tmeconscosenes aval nell of the obyctiied pore made svalable by histoncalscholarship, but i simultaneously

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