Modernity: A Way to the Openness of the Future
The article if devoted to the analysis of different theories of modernity in contemporary social and political theory. Drawing upon a conception of a prominent scholar of modernity, Peter Wagner, the article identifi es such theories of modernity as an era and set of institutions, as ethos and experience, as interpretation, as well as some critical approaches to modernity. Then the author proceeds to introducing the term monolithic modernity, which, according to his opinion, is tightly connected with uni-polar organization of international relations in the sphere of concrete international politics. Finally, the article undertakes an analysis of the advantages of a plural concept of modernity as experience and interpretation as against traditional theories of modernization.