A kánon megkérdőjelezői és a múlt eltörlői: Modernitás versus rombolás

Modernity is to be conceived not as a historical epoch but as a condition: it is not “in crisis” but is itself the crisis, carrying within it the permanent critique and renewal of the established order. Its relation to the past is ambivalent—either the hermeneutical re-appropriation of tradition or its radical repudiation (as in Futurism or cancel culture). Memory politics, the acceleration of time (Koselleck), the culture industry, and digital media alike erode autonomy and historical self-understanding. Modernity can preserve its generative energy only if access to tradition and its hermeneutical appropriation remain in balance with the emancipatory resistance to authoritarian power and the canons it seeks to impose. The breaking of the “chain” thus signals not the erasure of the past but the imperative of restoring understanding and the necessity of continuous reinterpretation.

Keywords: modernity, canon, crisis, historical memory, hermeneutics, reinterpretation,
cancel culture