The Limits of Modernity

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This paper examines "All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity," in which author Marshall Bergman examines modernity and concludes that nothing is permanent in modernism. The paper shows how Marshall argues that permanence is impossible because modernism demonstrates no shared purpose, which imposes consequences in the form of a constant breakdown of institutions and a steady deterioration of sociopolitical cohesiveness.

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"In his book, All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, author Marshall Bergman examines modernity and concludes that nothing is permanent in modernism. He argues that permanence is impossible because modernism demonstrates no shared purpose, which imposes consequences in the form of a constant breakdown of institutions and a steady deterioration of sociopolitical cohesiveness. In order to support this thesis of impermanence, Bergman evaluates Karl Marx, whom he considers a major figure in the history of modernity. Marx was an outsider who sought to destroy the organizing principle of modern society--capitalism--and replace it with communism."

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