#moderns — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #moderns, aggregated by home.social.
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Swift's #satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the #Ancients who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the #Moderns. The battle continues today between #paperbooks and #digitalbooks
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Swift's #satire uses a literal epic battle between books to explore the debates of his time among authors and critics Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the #Ancients who argued that all essential knowledge was to be found in classical texts, and the #Moderns. The battle continues today between #paperbooks and #digitalbooks