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The crisis of modernity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Del Noce, Augusto, 1910-1989 (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Lancellotti, Carlo (Editor, Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
Edition:[CEL version].
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 64.
Subjects:
Civilization, Modern.
Secularization.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.