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Reactionary modernism

Nazi German architecture mixing modernist design with the ancient Swastika symbol.

Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf[1] in the 1980s to describe the mixture of "great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy" that was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism.[2] In turn, this ideology of reactionary modernism was closely linked to the original, positive view of the Sonderweg, which saw Germany as the great Central European power, neither of the West nor of the East.

  1. ^ Reactionary Modernism: Some Ideological Origins of the Primacy of Politics in the Third Reich on JSTOR
  2. ^ "The Totalitarian Present: Why the West Consistently Underplays the Power of Bad Ideas, Jeffrey Herf, The American Interest". Archived from the original on 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2015-04-25.

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