But others praised the work for its political message and modernity.

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In Crane, the emphasis is not on what is lost in modernity but what is found or what might be.

在克莱恩看来，重点不是现代性丧失了什么,而在于新的发现或可能性。

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I think the sort of skepticism I mean arises from what one might call and what often is called modernity not to be confused with Modernism, an early twentieth-century phenomenon, but the history of modern thought as it usually derives from the generation of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes.

我所说的怀疑主义,产生于我们通常说的现代性,不要与20世纪早期的，现代主义搞混了，现代性是现代思想的历史,始于笛卡尔，莎士比亚和塞万提斯一代。

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