THE TWO MODERNITIES [41]

At some point during the first half of the ninettenth century an irreversible split occurred between modernity as a stage in the history of Western civilization--a product of scientific and technological progress, of the industrial revolution, of the sweeping economic and social changes brought about by capitalism--and modernity as an aesthetic ocncept.
First of these - bourgeois idea of modernity
continued outstanding traditions of earlier periods in history of modern idea Progress, confidence in beneficial possibilities of science and technology, concern with time, cult of reason, ideal of freedom within abstract humanism, pragmatism, cult of action and success.
Other modernity, radical antibourgeois attitudes would bring avant-gardes Chateaubriand, 1833, modernité disparaging to meanness and banality of everyday modern life.
Alienation of modern writer starts with romantic movement
Critique of philistine mentality - contrast between revolutionary and philistine
Art for Art's Sake popular in 1830s
Rallying cry for artists weary of empty romantic humanitarianism, hatred of bourgeois mercantilisim and vulgar utilitarianism.
Ugliness of modern industrial life can be transformed [45-46]

THE IDEA OF MODERNITY