Thinkers Against Modernity

✍ Scribed by Preston, Keith

• Publisher: Black House Publishing Ltd
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 83 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: London, United Kingdom
• ISBN: 191088135X

✦ Synopsis

The prevailing sentiment of contemporary intellectuals is that the human condition has never been better. History is regarded as a lengthy episode of oppression that human beings have gradually but steadily fought to overcome with considerable success. Evidence if these successes that are commonly offered include increased material consumption, better health and longer life expectancy, technological development and, above all, the ongoing triumph of "democracy" and "human rights." However, the nineteenth and twentieth century produced an array of dissident thinkers that expressed a great skepticism of modern civilization. Their individual critiques were often vastly different from one another. Yet the common idea that emerges from work of these genuine intellectual mavericks is one that laments the loss of traditional societies, and pessimism and the new world that modernity has brought. Instead, the modern project had been regarded by thinkers as different as Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton and Alain De Benoist to have been a cultured and spiritual degeneration that diminished rather than elevated the nobility of man.

✦ Subjects

Tradition (Philosophy)