/lit/ - Literature

>>6653950
Love the Abolition of Man. Hope you enjoy it. If you like that one, also consider Heidegger's essay 'The Question Concerning Technology.'

>>6634155
I think his time was a bit before postmodernism came into full swing, and while some of his thought was certainly influential on many postmodernists, I don't know if he would identify with them.
As for his conservatism, he did seem to be wary of how our culture was advancing and becoming highly dependent on technology and science, and how that was alienating us from older ways of understanding Being, but from what I've read of him, he doesn't seem to fit neatly into any particular camp, and has followers in a lot of different ones.

>>6584589
Modern technology and modern science require precision, which is fine, but our ability to find precise answers in certain areas causes us to think that scientific precision should be pursued in all areas of life, such as relationships or art. We've become insensitive to anything ambiguous, and are terrified of anything that we can't force into some sort of systematic schema. Science isn't the problem; it's our idolization of it that is.