The beginning pages of this chapter are significant because they do a good job of explaining the relationship between the Enlightenment and modernity, which helps establish a cultural framework for works from modern times. In addition, they help demonstrate that modernity can help explain the eternal if one looks at discrete units of time and all of its qualities. Anderson, Benedict. "Introduction." Imagined Communities. New York: Verso, 1991. 1-7. Benedict Anderson

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