Modernity is firstly a self-consciousness of “new age”. It regards “the modern” as an age totally different from “the pre-modern”. Three modes of modernity can be found in the different understandings of time and historicity. They are: (1) the project of modernity of the Enlightenment, “reason” as its core concept; (2) modernity as an instantaneous life formation which is embodied in modern culture; (3) Modernity as a new, comprehensive but uncompleted project seeking for an alternative to religion. Because the dynamics of modernity is derived from the impulse of self-emancipating of life, we should handle and even resolve the problems of modernity in the light of the ideal of the ongoing of human life.
