Disorientation and Abandonment: Early Modernity

With his reading of a modernity based on the deficit of meaning that accompanies the collapse of the Christian moral community, Nietzsche establishes a new concept of loneliness that deviates from the pre-modern interpretation: to live in modernity means to endure nihilism and to overcome the crisis of pre-modern communities. He thus becomes the herald of the modern lonelinesses or Einsamkeiten that gradually build up from early modernity. How are these developments described and understood in the early phase of modernization? What is the origin of these specifically experiences of social isolation that emerge from the modern way of life? How can modernity be described on the basis of these processes and on the basis of the loneliness that grows out of them? And what terms and concepts does the discourse of modernity find for these developments?