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To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power… — Marshall Berman

Economical literature · Philosophical literature

To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman
1982
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Modern life
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Economical literaturePhilosophical literature
Time
1982
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Marshall Berman
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Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.

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