英文摘要 |
An inquiry about newness can easily come across as one about modernity, and hence as banal. Our concern with modernity has never seemed to cease, primarily if not solely because of the connection of modernity with capitalism: so long as capitalism stays, the problem of modernity is with us. Whether globalization is regarded as the newest—and the last—version of modernity or as a radical break with it, the good and ill of things contemporary are more often than not taken to be the effects of modernity. |