ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the antimodern condition is a disposition, or way of looking at the world, rather than a political programme. Antimodernism assumes that modernism still exists and that it has not been superseded by anything else. The whole purpose of modernity is the journey: progress is in reality nothing but flux and transgression. Progress stresses the separation, the apartness, of us from the world. Dwelling focuses on our relations at all levels, with loved ones, friends, neighbours, and strangers and with the world itself. Martin Heidegger equates dwelling with building: for humans to dwell means they build structures for themselves. Dwelling is about the material and non-material relations that create the capacity for human continuity. In some ways it might be seen as a form of anti-politics in that the main arguments do not often rely on conventional political analysis.
