Tudo que é sólido desmancha no ar (Portuguese Edition)
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9788580862898
Publish date: May 22nd 2007
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Pages no: 320
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...