Efforts to understand violence of the twentieth century contributed to questioning modernist assumptions of progress, certainty, and rationality.

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The violence of the twentieth century, including World War I and II, led to a deeper understanding of the potential for destruction and chaos that modern technology and systems of governance could enable. This contributed to a questioning of the assumptions of progress, certainty, and rationality that had been central to modernist thought.

Efforts to Understand Violence of the Twentieth Century Contributed to Questioning