Title: Fascism: A Precursor to Postmodernism ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Headings: Fascism: A Precursor to Postmodernism
Fascism: A Precursor to Postmodernism
Postmodernism: the Spawn of Fascism
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Content: That man was machine-like, and part of the greater machine, led to the feeling of not only being isolated from his fellow man, but also from nature. Veith says: Fascism is essentially a response to the alienation that has been a part of the spiritual landscape of the West since the Enlightenment. Logic and rationalism, with their cold analyses and denial of basic human impulses, have seemed stifling, heightening the sense of alienation. If objective knowledge is alienating, subjective experience is liberating and healing. Authentic existence comes from unleashing the emotions, cultivating the subjective and irrational dimension of life. The attempts to resolve the dilemma of alienation, understandable as they are, would find concrete and political expression in fascism. [ 7]
Romanticism
Romanticism became the antidote to alienation. It asserted the value of the natural world in that it was seen not as a machine, but as a living organism. Nature must not be approached with reason and intellect, but by experience, emotions, and irrationalism, as opposed to rationalism.