Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22210/ur.2025.069.1/05
The limits of antimodernism
David Šporer
orcid.org/0000-0002-5017-4012
; Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu
Abstract
The article is discerning contours of certain parts of the history of the broader problematic to which the concept of “anti-modernism” belongs and with which Zoran Kravar was engaging by the turn of the last century in some of his scholarly works. As with other designations that relate to certain long term trends, the usual problem is how to limit the semantic content of such terms which are intertwined with other similar phenomena (like “conservative revolution” or “cultural pessimism”) and which entail the problems of chronological delineations. Besides conceptual and chronological limiting, one of the additional problems is broadness and vagueness of the understanding of “modernity” as differential substratum by virtue of which “anti-modernism” is delineated. The article aims to emphasize that tacitly implicating together diverse determinations of modernity strengthens the impression – despite their important differences – of the overlap between various and ideologically incompatible kinds of its critique.
Keywords
anti-modernism, anti-capitalism, conservative revolution, Romanticism, ideology, fascism
Hrčak ID:
333763
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2025.
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