Leszek Kołakowski - 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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