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The crisis of modernity /
In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays and lectures on the cultural history of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Italiano |
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Montreal & Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
64. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.