And finally according to Karl Marx the development of a capitalist economic structure necessitated the development of the culture of individualism and free enterprise, and the demise of community. We will have much more to say about Marxist and neo-Marxist theory later in this volume. The cultural patterns which help to create egocentricity may now be changing in such a way that the very nature of our inwardness may be shifting. Postmodernism presumably signals the end of this dilemma, which it replaces with a new one. We will have more the say about the individual in the postmodern world later.
Lets now look at the emergence of modernity, and the nature of the individual in the modern world.