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The Modern Spirit: The Arrival of a Secular Age
Five Hundred Years of the Modern World, Season 2
Completed · 33 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Li Yun: Modern People Really Are Rather Strange 2. After Disenchantment, Lonely Moderns Still Search for Meaning 3. A Secular Age: Living as Individuals in an Equal but Mechanical World 4. Who Is the World's Happiest Person? Individualism Is Born and Answers 5. Reason since the Seventeenth Century: From Descartes's Stove to Kant's Escape from Every “Do Not” 6. I Am Responsible for Myself: Autonomy Bridges Individuality and Public Morality 7. Robinson Crusoe's Modern Loneliness: No Divine Revelation on the Road to the Desert Island Q&A: Why Do Modern People Want to Return to Farming? | Interview with Zhang Xingang 8. Modern Rights: The State's Legitimacy Comes from Protecting Individuals 9. Why Does Eileen Gu's Nationality Matter? The Origins of Modern Patriotism 10. Democracy's Joy and Anxiety: Does Obeying the State Mean Obeying Myself? 11. Born Free, Yet Everywhere in Chains? 12. Ideology between Left and Right: Tensions in Liberalism and Socialism 13. How Does Modern Society Understand “Living Well”? Contract, Division of Labor, and Luxury 14. Why Do Big Tech Firms Inspire Love and Hate? Capitalism Past and Present 15. When May Politics Interfere in Other Systems? Social Differentiation and System Autonomy 16. Under Bureaucracy's Iron Cage, Can the Banality of Evil Raise Its Gun an Inch? 17. Why Does Modern Marriage Need Romantic Love? Patriarchy and the Changing Family Bonus: Modernity Torn Apart, Like a Carriage Arriving in the CBD | Unseasonable × Zhang Xingang × Chen Di I Bonus: Learn to Live through Long Modernity—Do Not Be Too Pessimistic | Part II 18. The Mechanistic World: From Aristotle to Newton, the Universe Becomes a Machine 19. The Birth of the Modern Body: Were Sixteenth-Century Anatomy Theaters So Thrilling? Bonus: Neither Nostalgia nor Expectation—Living through This Mediocre Age | Listener Q&A 20. Does Human Society Always Move Forward? The Independent “New” Age and Progressive History 21. Modern Time: Do You Use 996, or “the Time It Takes to Roast an Ear of Corn”? 22. Why Flee the City? Nature as Modern Urbanization's Missing Member 23. Anti-Modernity Is Also Modernity: Conservatism Is Not Patriarchal Schooling, and Marxism Is Progressivist 24. Painful Self-Portraits, Blurred Flesh, and Dismembered Time: Art Saves Itself in Modernity Bonus: Is Globalization Destined for Conflict? The Attack on Salman Rushdie | Shi Zhan × Zhang Xingang × Leung Man-tao I Bonus: Can Reason Discover Life's Meaning? Advice for the Post-Pandemic Age | Part II 25. Is This Real World Real? Nietzsche, Foucault, and Baudrillard on Postmodernity 26. Cervantes's Question: If Don Quixote Never Dreamed, Where Would Modernity Go? Conclusion & Q&A: Civilization and Modernity Together, Exploring Every Unconventional Future