Modern Man

Modern man may refer to:

  • Modernity, recent history and society, especially:
  • The modern individual or everyman.
  • The contemporary human condition.
  • Anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens of the last 200,000 years
  • Modern Man (magazine), a defunct monthly men's magazine
  • Modern Man (Michael Peterson album), the third album by country music singer Michael Peterson
  • Modern Man (album), the fifth by jazz musician Stanley Clarke
  • Modern Man, a song from the 1990 album Against the Grain by the punk rock band Bad Religion
  • Modern Man released in 2005, the third studio album by indie rock band Dissident Prophet
  • Modern Man (film), a 2006 experimental drama about one man’s isolation and search for meaning. The film was directed, edited and photographed by Justin Swibel
  • Modern Man, a song from the 2010 album The Suburbs by Arcade Fire

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or man:

    “The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)