ABSTRACT
Writing a little after the centenary of Grainger’s birth, political theorist Marshall Berman famously described the idea of modernity as encompassing both possibility and peril:
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are … it pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal, of struggle and contradiction, or ambiguity and anguish. 1
