ABSTRACT
The structures of belief and meaning that modern man found were not yet truly modern, they were still in the shadow of certain beliefs, such as the belief in God, the belief in some foundation or point to being, and belief in a certain limitation of truth. Modernity was one-sided in that it constructed technologies and forms of knowledge which were the result of man’s desire to dominate nature by reason and science, but they did not provide mankind with thoroughgoing structures of meaning. Man had power without direction; knowledge without wisdom.
