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 man, modern and/or man:

    “Modern man’s capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity’s capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)

    “The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear—and even, in certain respects, would be—the most modern of critical movements.”
    —Paul Deman (1919–1983)

    “A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.”
    —Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961)