| Title: | Aspects of the Conservative Intellectual Modernity in the Culture of Central Europe |
| Author: | Adrian Lăcătuș |
| Publication: | Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 4 (2), p. 61 |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-768X |
| e-ISSN: | 2066-7698 |
| Publisher: | Transilvania University Press |
| Place: | Brașov |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | The article traces some of the important and influential ideas inside the intellectual history of modern Central Europe, especially in its German cultural design. Authors like Robert Musil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hermann Broch, Eric Voegelin, Hans Sedlmayr et al. share a philosophical scepticism towards the revolutionary radicalism of modern thought and art. Their innovative mind, conceptual and theoretical creativity ought not be conceived along the conventional lines of modernism’s antagonism to tradition, but rather as criticism of both revolutionary modernism and traditionalism as (modern) ideology. Another defining aspect would be their disposition of thinking through the consequences of secularization and the dilemmas of modernity as a secular age. |
| Key words: | modernity, Central Europe, cultural conservatism, disenchantment, tradition |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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