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This study looked into the perception of the world shown in literary history during the early modern period and after that time. The perception of the world means a universal aspect of the ideology of knowledge back then, namely, ‘the independent realization of universality’. During the early modern period, the passion for Western civilization showed a substantial change after the loss of national sovereignty in 1910. In other words, after the descriptive desires of modern intellectuals, who pursued the symbols of nation and civilization at the same time, which were the national prosperity and defense as well as the inclusion into civilized countries, were practically blocked, Western civilization that had defined knowledge and ideology of that time and up to now, began losing the meaning of its universality. Also, World War I, which broke out in 1914 and lasted to 1918, more clearly demonstrated the false image of Western civilization.