I think I could guess what you are getting at here, but perhaps some clarification might help. A complete break with modernity, or just specific strands of it? A complete break would seem to imply a fundamentalist type of belief system. (Not saying it’s necessarily bad, it would just have to be comprehensive to even begin to counter-act all of modernity.) As for specific aspect objectors, there are many writers who might qualify (whether or not they are strictly philosophers). My favorites are Ken Wilber, who objects to the “flatland” materialism of the age; and Daniel Quinn, who posits that our “totalitarian agriculture” mindset has dire consequences.any philosophers who represents a genuine break with modernity — räthsel
are there any philosophers who represents a genuine break with modernity and if so, who is the greatest example of this? — räthsel
the merely functional abyss in which we live today? — räthsel
↪Terrapin Station I think Oscar Wilde defined art and creativity quite well; something completely useless. What he means by this is that it is useless to most people. Plotinus and Eckhart write of the difference between Being and Nothingness, no? And this is adopted by Heidegger and Sartre. We inhabited the middle realm between the two, but fell in to the abyss of nothingness, through the emergence of modernity. Our only hope, then, of returning in to the realm of Satya Yuga, as Evola puts it, is a complete and utter paradigm shift. — räthsel
So Collingwood is using Wilde's definition? And he's saying that there's a distinction to be had between "merely" functional living and "completely useless" living ("completely useless" to most people), while Heidegger and Spengler are saying that "completely useless" living (to most people) isn't possible at present for some reason, whereas it used to be? — Terrapin Station
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