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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 - Page 160
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey - 2010 - 634 pages
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Neopatriarchy: A Theory of Distorted Change in Arab Society

Hisham Sharabi - 1992 - 213 pages
...sign of rebellion and modernity. 12. Following Berman's approach. All That Is Solid, pp. 569-71. 13. "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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Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture

Cary Nelson, Lawrence Grossberg - 1988 - 756 pages
...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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New Models in Geography

Richard Peet, Professor Nigel Thrift - 1989 - 406 pages
...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, transformations of ourselves and the world - and at the same time,...
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The Powers of the Past: Reflections on the Crisis and the Promise of History

Harvey J. Kaye - 1991 - 212 pages
...indeed, make the relation between past and present problematic for, as Marshall Berman describes it: '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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Family and the State of Theory

David J. Cheal - 1991 - 234 pages
...nature of change. Herman (1982:15) describes the modern experience of change in the following way: 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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Psychological Perspectives on Sexual Problems: New Directions in Theory and ...

Jane M. Ussher, Christine D. Baker - 1993 - 288 pages
...own. 'To be modern/ writes Berman (1982:15), '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 world spirals...
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Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism

Jon Thompson - 1993 - 212 pages
...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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Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis

Stephen Frosh - 1994 - 164 pages
...To be modern', writes Berman (1982, p. 15), '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.' There is too...
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Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan ...

Jimmie Lynn Reeves, Richard Campbell - 1994 - 348 pages
...contradictions associated with the journalistic fetishization of the present as the very stuff of modernity: "To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises adventure, power, growth, transformation of ourselves — and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything...
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Consuming Places

John Urry - 1995 - 270 pages
...compression' (1989). Like many other analysts he begins with Berman's account of the modern world: To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment...growth, transformation of ourselves and the world. . . . Modern environments and experiences cut across all boundaries of geography and ethnicity, of...
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