Great Expectations

words "modernitv," "modernism,"rn"postmodernitv," and "postmodernism."rn"Modernitv" can be defined asrnthe period within which the followingrnconditions obtain: science establishesrnmatters of fact; political theory, the leftrightrnpolitical axis, and the nation-staterndetermine collective social organization;rntechnological progress drives the conditionsrnof life; secular values override allrnothers; and the fundamental unit ofrnpolitical . . .