The Problem With a Nominalist Approach to Modernity

Fascism was the first big attempt to build an alternate modernity, he says. The idea being that there is some antagonistic potential in the very project of capitalist modernity. All this phenomena we deplore are not simply a regression or Habermas would have put it, but part ofmodernity as an ancient project,. This is what gets lost and I think that although it wants to be historical, this idea of reducing the antagonistic aspects of modernity to just one particular form of modernity is deeply ideological because it saves unblemished the general notion of modernization.