Who was the first to make a pact with the devil?
Malcolm Bull, 14 May 1992
Modernity and Identity
edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman.
Blackwell, 448 pp., £45, January 1992,0 631 17585 7 Show More
edited by Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman.
Blackwell, 448 pp., £45, January 1992,
Fundamentalisms Observed
edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby.
Chicago, 872 pp., $40, November 1991,0 226 50877 3 Show More
edited by Martin Marty and Scott Appleby.
Chicago, 872 pp., $40, November 1991,
The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial
by Margaret Rose.
Cambridge, 317 pp., £35, July 1991,0 521 40131 3 Show More
by Margaret Rose.
Cambridge, 317 pp., £35, July 1991,
Under God: Religion and American Politics
by Garry Wills.
Simon and Schuster, 445 pp., £17.99, February 1992,0 671 65705 4 Show More
by Garry Wills.
Simon and Schuster, 445 pp., £17.99, February 1992,
“... Although the modern has been with us since the end of antiquity, it has, at least until recently, always avoided becoming antique. As early as the 17th century, some were arguing that by virtue of longevity, the moderns must already be more ancient than the ancients themselves; but unlike the true ancients, who remained trapped in undying senility, the moderns seemed to have the secret of eternal youth, and for another three centuries they grew younger as their predecessors aged ... ”
