They exhibit, on the one hand, a radical openness to key aspects of the modern experience, and, on the other, a radical rejection of basic
tendencies of modernity.
What is really at stake is a fair judgment on
modernity, an assessment, a fine discrimination
of both its nobility and ethical allure, on the one hand, and its self - destructiveness, and self - flattening and demeaning
tendencies, on the other.