The modern author and writing

Abstract

Beginning with the sociology of the text, this article develops the relationship between writing and modernity, as well as betweenthe modern author, as a creator of the new, and therelations that he or she establishes with the social processes of modernizing change. It is inthese processes that the critical works which see theperverse and predatory effects of the collective and the break with nature develop. This paper is also a tribute to Marshall Berman’s book All That is Solid Melts into Air (1982), on its 30 anniversary.