"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."

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Source : Marshall Berman (1983). “All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity”, p.15, Verso

Marshall Berman

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