In this age of globalization, societies and people across the world are asking themselves the same questions about modernity : where are we going? How did we get to this point? What is the power of knowledge today in the evolution of societies? What is the role and meaning of science and technology, and of philosophy and the humanities in general? Modernity today not longer belongs exclusively to the West. It has become a global issue. Modernity results from a hange in the conception, role and organization of knowledge in society.