139 TEASER | What is Modernity? Part I: Marshall Berman and the Contradictions of Modern Experience
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The episode begins a series on modernity, discussing Marshall Berman's insights on the experience of modernity.
In this episode, we begin our new series on modernity with a discussion of Marshall Berman’s 1982 book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Some of the questions we will tackle in this series will address the substance of modernity, whether modernity is singular or multiple, the relationship of art to modernization, and whether modernity is better understood as a rupture from the past or a development out of it. Berman, for his part, argues that modernity has always ...
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