All That Is Solid Melts Into the Air: The Experience of Modernity
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780844666815 (0844666815)
Publish date: June 1st 1995
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher
Pages no: 383
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Criticism,
Art,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Cultural Studies,
Theory
Miraculously they find the operating manual, damp but usable. They locate the section. There's a section. Ears numb from the piercing alarm. Eyes streaming. A section. Scanning through pages. A title: "operational Procedures in the Event of Reactor Meltdown." A block of black ink, two pages...
Berman's point is clear and casts an important light -- his notion of modernity and, far more importantly to me, the claim that modernity has deep roots that should be nourishing and renewing (wonderful!). But his method of getting the reader there is not sound. I'm glad to have spent some hours re...