Acquiring Modernity: An Investigation into the Rise, Structure, and Future of the Modern World
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Intro -- Acquiring Modernity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- 1 No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- 2 Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- 3 Divesting Philosophy's Ultimate Word -- 4 The Concept of Society -- 5 History and Human Development -- 6 A History of Struggles -- 7 Mystical Consciousness -- 8 Illusions to this Day -- 9 An Inverted World -- 10 Educating the Educator -- 11 Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- 12 Middle Class Snobbism -- 13 Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- 14 Social Scum -- 15 Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- 16 The Cult of Nature -- 17 World Literature -- 18 Modern Society's All-dominating Power -- 19 An Impulse never Before Known -- 20 Head of the Movement -- 21 Absurd Epidemics -- 22 Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- 23 Machines -- 24 Rule of the Towns -- 25 Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- 26 Solids Melting into Air -- 27 Civilization and Barbarism -- 28 Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- 29 Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- 30 The Economic Existence of the State -- 31 Democracy for their Truth -- 32 Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- 33 The Executive Committee -- 34 Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- 35 Rolling Back the Wheel -- 36 The Goal of Popular Desire -- 37 National Egoism -- 38 Every Sect is Religious -- 39 Disgusting Despotism -- 40 The Sycophantic Babblers -- 41 Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- 42 The Measure of Social Progress -- 43 Defiling Republics -- 44 A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- 45 The World Market -- 46 The Political Chessboard -- 47 Throwing Dust in People's Eyes -- 48 Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- 49 The Sorcerer -- 50 Prevailing Tendencies -- 51 Common Ruin -- 52 Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- 53 Socialist Sentimentalizing -- 54 Whether We Want it or Not -- 55 Afterword -- 56 Postmodernism?.