The Global Connection - Episode #27: What It Means to Be Modern

What is modernity? How has it shaped the way we live and think? In this episode of The Global Connection, host Anna Sajecki speaks with Dr. Yoav Fromer about a course he teaches called “Modernity and Its Discontents.” The course is one of the most popular taught through Tel Aviv University’s International BA in Liberal Arts, which this year is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.

 

Learn more about TAU’s International BA in Liberal Arts: https://international.tau.ac.il/Liberal_Arts

 

Keywords: modernity, modernism, discontents, enlightenment, reason, democracy, nature, individuals, individualism, romanticism, postmodernism, technology, war, abstraction, capitalism, Liberal Arts, humanism, art, humanities, Tel Aviv University, Israel

 

Unit: Global podcast 27 09 23 Yoav Fromer edited

 

Episode Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbIEfMyu7M