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The crisis of modernity /Augusto Del Noce ; edited and translated by Carlo Lancellotti.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Publication details: Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773596733
  • 9780773596740
  • 9780773544420
  • 9780773544437
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • CB425 .C757 2014
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Contents:
Part One Modernity, Revolution, Secularization. The Idea of Modernity -- Violence and Modern Gnosticism -- Revolution, Risorgimento, Tradition -- The Latent Metaphysics within Contemporary Politics -- Secularization and the Crisis of Modernity.
The Shadow of Tomorrow -- The Death of the Sacred -- The Roots of the Crisis -- The Ascendance of Eroticism.
A "New" Perspective on Left and Right.
Notes on Secularization and Religious Thought -- Eric Voegelin and the Critique of the Idea of Modernity.
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Essays translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Translator's Introduction -- Part One Modernity, Revolution, Secularization. The Idea of Modernity -- Violence and Modern Gnosticism -- Revolution, Risorgimento, Tradition -- The Latent Metaphysics within Contemporary Politics -- Secularization and the Crisis of Modernity.

Part Two The Advent of the Technocratic Society. Toward a New Totalitarianism -- The Shadow of Tomorrow -- The Death of the Sacred -- The Roots of the Crisis -- The Ascendance of Eroticism.

Part Three The Predicament of the West. Authority versus Power -- A "New" Perspective on Left and Right.

Appendices. The Story of a Solitary Thinker -- Notes on Secularization and Religious Thought -- Eric Voegelin and the Critique of the Idea of Modernity.

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