Is the concept of the modern an “alwaysmodernity” of European tradition or the New time creation?

Abstract

The article devoted to the discussion of the thesis that the conception of the modernity with typical for it controversy between “old and modern” is not a specific trait of new times cultural situation and enlightenment conscience. Enough grounds for the consideration of it as a fundamental element of European tradition since the time of late antiquity. The peculiarity of its importance in Modern Time first of all consists of the secularization of reality due to which other articulations of temporal dispositions appears. For defining of the modernity, the decisive socio-cultural characteristics are of no great importance (according to which “the historical period” of Modern Time is separated), but temporal structure of being is.