...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." Ibid., p. 15. 14. This is a convenient place to make the comparison with Japan. In Japan the tension...

...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.' This double-sidedness is one of the characteristics of modernity that makes sociology a field of social...

...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. . . . To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, "all that is solid melts into...

...energies they seemed to embody. To be modern, as M. Berman has put it, was to find oneself in a world "that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are... Modernity can be said to unite all mankind. But it is a paradoxical unity, a unity of disunity; it...

...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.' The world spirals away, our reality cannot be grasped, by power neither of mind nor of will; narcissism...

...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.' There is too much fluctuation and contradiction; as part of this, those who once were dubbed minorities...

...ourselves in an environment that promises adventure, power, growth, transformation of ourselves — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. ... To be modern is to be part of a universe in which, as Marx said, 'all that is solid melts into...

...adventure. power. joy. growth. transformation of ourselves and the world—and. ai the same lime. thai threatens to destroy everything we have. everything...we know. everything we are. Modern environments and experience cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity. of class and nationality. of religion...

...environment that promises 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 (Berman 1983: 15). This desire to create order from disorder permeates the modern world, and can be...

...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. Modem environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of class and...