Since the beginnings of mechanization and even industrialization, there has been a strand of opinion which rejects, objects to, or has been highly critical of the costs of the changes that these trends brought about. Mechanization refers to the use of powered machinery to help a human operator in some task. ...

As such there is no movement labelled anti-modernism, instead it is a catch all term for different critiques of the modern era, modernism, modernist works, or some combination of the above.

The Lord of the Rings can be seen as an anti-modernist piece of work since it expresses affection for a simple, non-mechanistic life. The rural Shire is the embodiment of the good life, while the industrialized Isengard is foul and corrupt. The Ring can be seen as symbolizing the atomic bomb, however the plot is from the 1930s and at that time, Tolkien would not have known about atomic energy. Cover design for the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The One Ring, as envisaged by Gerald Stiehler The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy saga by British author J. R. R. Tolkien, his magnum opus... The Ring of Isengard in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Isengard, a translation of the Sindarin Angrenost, was a large fortress. ...

Brief Discussion

Anti-modern movements represent a wide range of critiques, including appeals to tradition, religion, spirituality, environmentalism, aesthetics, pacifism or agrarian virtues. They may reject technologies, or their use, social organizations, such as corporations, or some combination of the above. They may reject modernism on the grounds of its denying universalism of particular kinds. The word tradition, comes from the Latin word traditio which means to hand down or to hand over. ... ... Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ... Aesthetics is another meaning for visual style, such examples are Realism , Documentary realism, Psychological realism, Expressionism, and Surrealism // Aesthetics in History and Philosophy Thinkers and sages have pondered beauty and art all over the world for millennia, but the subject was formally distinguished as an independent philosophical discipline in the... Pacifism is opposition to war. ... Agrarian has two meanings: It can mean pertaining to Agriculture It can also refer to the ideology of Agrarianism and Agrarian parties. ... Universalism refers to concepts and issues which are said to be universal in appeal—i. ...

See also

• Amish
• Critical theory
• eco-anarchism
• Fascism
• Luddite
• Modernist Crisis
• Neo-Tribalism
• Primitivism
• Religious fundamentalism
• Unabomber
• Victorianism

Amish couple in a horse-drawn buggy in rural Holmes County, Ohio, the site of one of the largest concentrations of Amish in the United States The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptists noted for their restrictions on the use of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity. ... In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories, one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. ... Eco-anarchism argues that small eco-villages (of no more than a few hundred people) are a scale of human living preferable to civilization, and that infrastructure and political systems should be re-organized to ensure that these are created. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Luddites were a social movement of English workers in the early 1800s who protested – often by destroying textile machines – against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution that they felt threatened their jobs. ... Modernism was a term used by Pope Pius X to describe the doctrines of a group of theologians (chiefly Alfred Loisy and George Tyrell), notably the assumption that the Christian Church and its dogma are human institutions that have evolved in time like other institutions, and which are expressed like... This article concerns the social philosophy known as Neo-Tribalism and not the breakdown of national identities that followed the end of the Cold War. ... This article is about primitivism. ... Fundamentalism is a movement to maintain strict adherence to founding principles. ... Unabomber is a nickname applied to three people: Theodore Kaczynski, an American terrorist. ... Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art and culture of the later two-thirds of the 19th century. ...

External links

• Antimodernism MSN Group