Hall, John R. - In: Sociological Research Online 14 (2009) 5, pp. 10-10
of modernity tended to portray a secular trend toward the triumph of rationalized social order centered in diachronic … modernity through the articulation of rationalized diachronic time with the sacred strategic time of apocalyptically framed … 'holy war.' Overall, the 'empire of modernity' is a hybrid formation that bridges diachronic and strategic temporalities …