Del Noce, Augusto, 1910-1989.

The crisis of modernity /Augusto Del Noce ; edited and translated by Carlo Lancellotti. - Montreal and Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 64 .

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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Civilization, Modern.
Secularization.
Civilization, Western.


Electronic Books.

CB425 / .C757 2014