Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book reconsiders the interpretation and application

V.1 Modernization -- V.2 Cultural modernity -- V.3 Odern system -- V.4 After modernity.

First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as “the world dominated by its phantasmagorias”. The chapters in this book focus on one

Analyzes the complex unity of modernist culture, paying special attention to artistic, intellectual, and social institutions that embody value.

In much the same way that Japan has become the focus of contemporary American discussion about industrial restructuring, Germans in the economic reform in terms