Apologia of Modernity

Recovery from "brain death": a neurologist's apologia.

Two theories of modernity.

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Global Modernity? Modernity in an Age of Global Capitalism

This article offers the concept of ‘global modernity’ (in the singular) as a way to understand the contemporary world. It suggests that the concept helps overcome the teleology implicit in a term such as globalization, while it also recognizes global difference and conflict, which are as much characteristics of the contemporary world as tendencies toward unity and homogenization. These differen...