Vaguely related I have been reading a lot of the first modern books (e.g. from 1850-1930) ish. (Dostoyevsky, Kirkegard and so on). And it is truely fascinating,

Vaguely related I have been reading a lot of the first modern books (e.g. from 1850-1930) ish. (Dostoyevsky, Kirkegard and so on). And it is truely fascinating, how modern they feel. In Either/Or he specifically talks about what makes a period modern and he explains it through the relevance of the individuum and individual responsibility.