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 <i>an era and set of institutions</i>, as <i>ethos and experience</i>, as <i>interpretation</i>, as well as some critical approaches to modernity. Then the author proceeds to introducing the term <i>monolithic modernity, </i>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 <i>as experience and interpretation </i>as against traditional theories of modernization.