Reactionary modernism
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title:
Reactionary modernism
text:
Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf in the 1980s to describe the mixture of "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy" that was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism. In turn, this ideology of reactionary modernism was closely linked to the original, positive view of the Sonderweg, which saw Germany as the great Central European power, neither of
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Political ideology characterized by embrace of technology and anti-Enlightenment thought
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary_modernism
date created:
2009-05-20T11:39:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T15:57:35Z
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