Leszek Kołakowski Quote

It would be silly, of course, to be either 'for' or 'against' modernity tout court, not only because it is pointless to try to stop the development of technology, science, and economic rationality, but because both modernity and antimodernity may be expressed in barbarous and antihuman terms.


"Modernity on Endless Trial" (1986)


It would be silly, of course, to be either 'for' or 'against' modernity tout court, not only because it is pointless to try to stop the development...

It would be silly, of course, to be either 'for' or 'against' modernity tout court, not only because it is pointless to try to stop the development...

It would be silly, of course, to be either 'for' or 'against' modernity tout court, not only because it is pointless to try to stop the development...

It would be silly, of course, to be either 'for' or 'against' modernity tout court, not only because it is pointless to try to stop the development...