The disjunctions which have taken place should rather be seen as resulting from the self-clarification of modern thought, as the remnants of tradition and providential outlooks are cleared away. We have not moved beyond modernity but are living precisely through a phase of its radicalisation.

XREF: Echoes Latour's 'We Have Never Been Modern' and debates about postmodernism, suggesting continuity rather than rupture.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 127