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Modernity on Endless Trial (1990)
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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.
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I do not know what postmodern is and how it differs from the premodern, nor do I feel that I ought to know.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Leszek Kołakowski
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Born:
October 23, 1927
Died:
July 17, 2009
(aged 81)
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