Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.20901/pm.62.1.02
THE ORIGINS OF CONSERVATIVE ANTIMODERNISM: JOSEPH DE MAISTRE, LOUIS DE BONALD AND JUAN DONOSO CORTÉS
Sebastian A. Kukavica
orcid.org/0009-0004-1259-4069
Sažetak
Antimodernism has generally been interpreted either as an antimodern resentment characteristic of the works of apodictically modern thinkers and artists from the late 19th and early 20th century, or as a tradition of philosophical historical, political-philosophical, and political-theological critique of progress, secularization, modernization processes, or, more broadly speaking, of the pathologies and neuralgias of existence in the modern world. This article seeks to offer a theory of conservative antimodernism, comprehending the latter as a specific tradition of cultural-pessimistic theory and critique of modernity and the modern era, grounded in the essential concepts of conservatism and stemming from counter-revolutionary political thought. Conservative antimodernism conceives the modern era as a spiritual and historical stage of decadence of an enfeebled and previously organic culture, while at the same time imagining modernity as a metapolitical project of transvaluation of the constitutive values of the pre-modern order of meaning, whereby nihilism is understood as the essence and fate of modernity. In contrast to this conception of the modern era and the project of modernity, conservative antimodernism develops a vision either of a cultural palingenesis beyond modernity, or of bringing modernity to the extremes of its inherent nihilism, thereby leading to the self-abolition of the modern era. The essential features of conservative antimodernism will be presented through an analysis of the political thought of three Catholic counter-revolutionary political philosophers: Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, and Juan Donoso Cortés.
Ključne riječi
Conservative Antimodernism; Critique of Modernity; Counter-revolutionary Thought; Joseph de Maistre; Louis de Bonald; Juan Donoso Cortés
Hrčak ID:
333823
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Datum izdavanja:
18.7.2025.
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