Modernity is negative to Heidegger, because this is where Cartesianism/representationalism, humanism, subjectivism, and everything like them come about.
for Parmenides
Thinking is standing in the middle of Being and being receptive to all that is revealed around you. Thinking allows one to passively receive Being.
Being presents itself to thinking “as it is.”
What is modernity?
Modernization and modernity are not the same.
Les temps modernes started in 1500-1800, and were separated from the Late Middle Ages.
Modernity came with an increasing rationality in all forms of life, as well as a restriction on the power of theology/the church.
Weber points out the progressive rationalization of religion and separation of church from state.
Nazis were horrible, but capitalism is what allowed that system to fester.
The promises of Enlightenment fell through.