ABSTRACT
Marshall Berman (1982) calls modernity the body of experience whereby women and men find themselves to be subjects in and objects of a world in flux, where “all that is solid melts into air.” Speaking from a EuroAmerican viewpoint, Berman maintains that modern life is suffused with the fleeting and the fragmentary, that renewal and disintegration are universal, that all peoples are united by “a unity of disunity.”
