Modernism - Dissent Magazine

Michael Walzer ▪ April 12, 2017

As Marshall Berman wrote, reading Capital won’t help us if we don’t also know how to read the signs in the streets.

Todd Gitlin ▪ July 18, 2014

For Marshall Berman, the street was not just the site where modernism was enacted; it was modernism incarnate.

Marshall Berman ▪ May 6, 2011

We can learn more about globalization, inequality, and modernity from the Communist Manifesto than from any book ever written.

Marshall Berman ▪ Spring 2009

In Snow, and in all his best writing, Pamuk creates a drama of modern life in the process of moving toward radical polarization.

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