02-29-2012, 02:05 PM
Modernity actually serves as a foil for baselining of Catholicism (and Islam) as "traditional". This is quite clear from the good-humored works of the "anti-imperialist" Morris Berman. Also clear now is that the charge that modernity is a result of negative (relational/ reactive) identity is the same as the usual damnation of the heathen as reactionary. The heathen relational is actually sought to be recast as the rascally dialectic.