Beck, Humberto (2016). Otra modernidad es posible. El pensamiento de Ivan Illich. México: Malpaso

Abstract

A century ago, Paul Klee's Angelus Novus already warned us, according to Walter Benjamin, that modernity was nothing more than a catastrophe that tirelessly accumulates ruin upon ruin. One hundred years later, that warning threatens the possibilities of the present by becoming the future. In the midst of this, humanity today is perhaps more defenseless and vulnerable than ever. What the centuries have built shows us the crudest of its facets: society unsuccessfully tries to react through empty concepts and practices incapable of being up to the historical task; the only light that guides the way to the future seems to be the fire of our own destruction.