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Zygmunt Bauman: Dialectic of Modernity

Architecture News - Dec 09, 2007 - 19:30   5411 views

It is only recently that we have begun to realize the extent to which modern thought is prompted by the cravings of order´ (. While it is less than controversial that the rather probe into the motivation involved. With the advent of modernity, order shifts from the realm of ´nature´ to that of ´techne´; this is a fact both ´real´ and ´utopian´ in its dimensions for modernity is the field of social self-constitution. The anthropological and ethical issue here is whether we, as moderns, are prepared to live with the mess, or whether we are to become obsessed with the idea of cleaning it up, once-and-for-all.
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