...[Modernity] is a mode of vita] experience ... that is shared by men and women all over the world today. 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...

...Melts Into Air (Berman, 1983) who supplies this classic description of modernity and its drawbacks, 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,...

...also, notoriously, has its dark side, as Marshall Berman's well-known account eloquently makes clear: 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 iime,...

...is 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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...5). Berman takes a more poetic stance that introduces an important dark undercurrent or dialectic: To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment...of ourselves and the world - and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are (1982: 15). Finally,...

...Herman so tellingly described, to be modern was to 'find ourselves in an environment that promise[d] power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world - and at the same time, that threatened] to destroy everything we ha[d], everything we kn[e]w, everything we [were]' (1983,...

...experience of these changes is symptomatically complex. Marshall Berman provides a compact summary: 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,...