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| == Brief Discussion == | == Brief Discussion == | ||
| Anti-modern movements represent a wide range of critiques, including appeals to ], ], ], ], ], ], ] or ] virtues. They may reject technologies, or their use, social organizations, such as corporations, or some combination of the above. They may reject modernism on the grounds of its denying ] of particular kinds. | Anti-modern movements represent a wide range of critiques, including appeals to ], ], ], ], ], ], ] or ] virtues. They may reject technologies, or their use, social organizations, such as corporations, or some combination of the above. They may reject modernism on the grounds of its denying ] of particular kinds. | ||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
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Since the beginnings of mechanization and even industrialization, there has been a strand of opinion which rejects, objects to, or has been highly critical of the costs of the changes that these trends brought about.
As such there is no movement labelled anti-modernism, instead it is a catch all term for different critiques of the modern era, modernism, modernist works, or some combination of the above.
The Lord of the Rings can be seen as an anti-modernist piece of work since it expresses affection for a simple, non-mechanistic life. The rural Shire is the embodiment of the good life, while the industrialized Isengard is foul and corrupt. The Ring can be seen as symbolizing the atomic bomb, however the plot is from the 1930s and at that time, Tolkien didn't know about atomic energy yet.
Brief Discussion
Anti-modern movements represent a wide range of critiques, including appeals to tradition, religion, spirituality, environmentalism, aesthetics, pacifism, Marxism or agrarian virtues. They may reject technologies, or their use, social organizations, such as corporations, or some combination of the above. They may reject modernism on the grounds of its denying universalism of particular kinds.
See also
- Amish
- Luddite
- Modernist Crisis
- Religious fundamentalism
- Unabomber
- Primitivism
- eco-anarchism
- Fascism
- Critical theory
- Victorianism