This article presents European documentalist, critical modernist, and Autonomous Marxist influenced post‐Fordist views regarding the management of knowledge in mid and late twentieth century Western modernity and post‐modernity, and the complex theoretical and ideological debates, especially concerning issues of language and community. The introduction and use for corporate, governmental, and s...

Abstract In their critique of liberal modernity, classical realists theorized its consequence for the heightened sense insecurity and powerlessness individual on one hand, individual's identification with extreme nationalism violence other. This became challenge posed by modernity in post-1945 international order. The article argues that present order is an extension never resolved this challen...

This paper aims to show the centrality the concept of progress occupies explicitly and implicitly in social theory, in relation to the theorization and understanding of modernity; it also raises the question whether in times where Eurocentrism, logocentrism, and indeed almost every claim of supremacy are rightly viewed with suspicion, it is possible to think of modernity without relying on some...

the so-called “third world” has often experienced modernity and its version of the “city” in some of their most grotesque forms where iran has not been an exception. in other words, north-atlantic powers have historically played the midwife for a father-figure-like modernity and its “third world” concubines, the result of which has been the birth of “monstrosities” of all kinds. focusing mainly...