The USA at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Modernity in Crisis?

Abstract

The article discusses a possibility if the USA at the beginning of the 20th century was one of the centers where attempts at renewing the West were born. The main perspective of the discussion is Roger Griffin's characterization of modernism in "Modernism and Fascism" (2007).

Keywords

• The USA
• modernity in crisis
• renewal
• modernism
• Griffin