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Modernity without Prometheus: on re-reading Marshall Berman's

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This essay revisits Marshall Berman's extremely influential book, All that is Solid Melts into Air, some thirty years after its first publication. Berman provided an analysis of modernity as something including, but not limited to, capitalism, and as something which encompassed not just `social processes' but also new subjectivities, not just new world(s) but new ways of inhabiting them. He also offered a passionate defense of modernity an its possibilities, and of modernism as a mode of engaging and affirming these possibilities. In asking how well this analysis reads 30 years later, this essay provides a sympathetic critique, in the course of which it provides elements of an alternative, postcolonial reading of modernity.

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  • Sanjay Seth, 2012. "Modernity without Prometheus: on re-reading Marshall Berman's," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(7), pages 1377-1386.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:33:y:2012:i:7:p:1377-1386
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2012.691836
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