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Formation of European modernity andits values.

HONG Tai-Young 1

1국방대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study examines how modern nation-state as time-space formated and activated. This aims to understand meaning of modernity which is formed in the 19th century. European modernity is what we affronted in the late 19th century, and the totality of european imperialist values which Europe wanted to implant in the third world. This process of implantation had a base of eurocentrism and 'civilisation'. In this sense, Europe is not only conception of geology, but also cultural conception. This european modernity has three axis: market, state, democracy. These form modern community, in the areas of economy, politics, and society. To reexamine european modernity in this times relates to the situation of its limit. In the globalization, the cadre of nation-state of capitalism and democracy begins to collapse, making democracy crisis. These situations demand new transformation of democracy, in posing problematics of three axis of european modernity. This article aims to comprehend critically signification of european modernity and its values.

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