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Thinkers Against Modernity (Hardcover)
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The prevailing sentiment of contemporary intellectuals is that the
human condition has never been better. History is regarded as
lengthy episode of oppression that human beings have gradually but
steadily fought to overcome with considerable success. Evidence of
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 about the new
world that modernity has brought. Instead, the modern project has
been regarded by thinkers as different as Nietzsche, G.K.
Chesterton and Alain De Benoist to have been a cultural and
spiritual degeneration that diminished rather than elevated the
nobility of man.
This work by Keith Preston examines the ideas of these thinkers,
and considers the potential relevance of their insights in the
postmodern age.
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