Modernity and historical consciousness

Abstract

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the concept of modernity and historical consciousness in the new European culture. In the new European concept of modernity, read as co-modernity, not so much the formal simultaneity stands out, but the fact that this concept is a symbolic and value-infected concept. In this term, it is possible to fix a certain value hierarchy of time, when what belongs to the present has a symbolic, value and ontic preference. Such an attitude to modernity is characteristic of an industrially and technologically developed society, which is what European countries have been from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day. It is for such societies that the value of the present moment and the future is an absolute value, zones of centralization, and teleological assumptions. Such symbolic and value filling of modernity is possible only in the format of historical consciousness of the new European culture. Therefore, the article provides a comparative analysis of the symbolism of the concept of modernity and the new European model of historicism. According to the author, which is actually the main conclusion of this text, it is the symbolism of historical time that is the matrix that allows us to thematize modernity not as a moment, but as a zone of symbolic and value segregation.