Modernity And Ambivalence

Modernity, argues Bauman, promised to bring the kind of clarity and transparency to human life that only reason can offer. This has not happened, and today we n... » 

Modernity, argues Bauman, promised to bring the kind of clarity and transparency to human life that only reason can offer. This has not happened, and today we no longer believe that it ever will. Here, Bauman goes on to discuss why modernity did not deliver its promise. «