Antimodernity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Opposition to modernity. uncountable

    "The knowledge that Stewart suggests is therefore not simply the remnant of an irrational antimodernity (as Horkheimer and Adorno would suggest) nor is it a linear return to an indigenous belief system that is premodern."

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"The knowledge that Stewart suggests is therefore not simply the remnant of an irrational antimodernity (as Horkheimer and Adorno would suggest) nor is it a linear return to an indigenous belief system that is premodern."

Etymology

From anti- + modernity.

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