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" 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. "
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - Página 160
por Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 634 páginas
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Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?

Carrie Gustafson - 1999 - 230 páginas
...Council of Churches, 1996). The comment by Marshall Berman is as good a one-line assessment as I know: "To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment...ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we know, everything we are." From Marshall Berman, All That Is...
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Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction

Scott McCracken - 1998 - 228 páginas
...is a time of rapid social change that brings contradictory results. In the words of Marshall Berman: To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and our world — and, at the same time,...
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Spaces of Modernity: London's Geographies, 1680-1780

Miles Ogborn - 1998 - 356 páginas
...shared by men and women all over the world today. I will call this body of experience 'modernity.' 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,...
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Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging ...

Richard Guy Parker - 1999 - 310 páginas
...shared by men and women all over the world today. I will call this body of experience "modernity." To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment...ourselves and the world — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are. Modern environments...
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Ritalin Nation: Rapid-fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness

Richard J. DeGrandpre - 2000 - 292 páginas
...body of experience 'modernity.' 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." 42 Berman's double-edged...
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Peasants and Religion: A Socioeconomic Study of Dios Olivorio and the Palma ...

Jan Lundius, Mats Lundahl - 2000 - 810 páginas
...time, of the self and others, of life's possibilities and perils - that is shared by men and women ... 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,...
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Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution

Donald L. Donham - 1999 - 268 páginas
...shared by men and women all over the world today. I will call this body of experience "modernity." 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,...
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Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century

Clarence Karr - 2000 - 348 páginas
...intimidating. "To be modern," writes Marshall Berman, "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." 16 Would traditional...
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Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities

Christopher Hauke - 2000 - 348 páginas
...of modernity and its drawbacks. To be modern is to tind 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 everv thing we have. everything we know. everything we are ... a maelstrom...
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The Seeing Century: Film, Vision and Identity

Wendy Everett - 2000 - 228 páginas
...account eloquently makes clear: To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment thai promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and, at the same nme, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are, Modern environments...
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