On Tuesday 2nd October 2018, Komar Research Center (KRC) at the held an academic seminar titled “Western Culture: Precursors of Modernism” for the Asst. Prof. Dr. Zanyar Faiq Saeed. In the seminar, Saeed shed light on the role of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud in breaking away from metaphysical logocentrism and paving the way for a new paradigm called modernism.