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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 the twentieth century. Del Noce maintained that twentieth-century history must be understood specifically as a philosophical history, because Western culture was profoundly affected by the major philosophies of the previous century such as idealism, Marxism, and positivism. Such philosophies became the secular, neo-gnostic surrogate of Christianity for the European educated classes after the French Revolution, and the next century put them to the practical test, bringing to light their ultimate and necessary consequences. One of the first thinkers to recognize the failure of Marxism, Del Noce posited that this failure set the stage for a new secular, technocratic society that had taken up Marx’s historical materialism and atheism while rejecting his revolutionary doctrine. Displaying Del Noce's rare ability to reconstruct intellectual genealogies and to expose the deep metaphysical premises of social and political movements, The Crisis of Modernity presents an original reading of secularization, scientism, the sexual revolution, and the history of modern Western culture.
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Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy’s foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an original and profound cultural critic, and in particular as a great scholar of the process of secularization that took place in the West during the 1960s. A collection of eleven essays and lectures by Del Noce that originally appeared between 1964 and 1969, and which the author published as a book in 1971, The Age of Secularization quickly became recognized as one of the most original and penetrating attempts to interpret the cultural and political turmoil of the period. In its pages Del Noce discusses, among other topics, the student protests of 1968, the counterculture of the 1960s, the significance of the sexual revolution, the nature of the technological society, and the relationship between Christianity and modern culture. The Age of Secularization documents the encounter between a key period of contemporary history and the full intellectual maturity of one of its most perceptive observers. It makes available to English-language readers a lasting reflection on the philosophical roots of contemporary culture, and it is just as illuminating and topical today as it was nearly fifty years ago.
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The Problem of Atheism offers the first translation of Augusto Del Noce's landmark book from 1964. One of the earliest works to recognize the new secularizing trends in Western culture following World War II, this book remains relevant to contemporary debates about secularization, political theology, and modernity.
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Publié au moment de la plus grande fortune de Gramsci, cet essai a pour point de départ le " paradigme italien ", que met au jour une interprétation " transpolitique ", c'est-à-dire attentive au parallélisme entre philosophie et politique, de l'histoire du XXe siècle : c'est en Italie que sont nés Giovanni Gentile. philosophe officiel du fascisme (mais qui avait donné, en 1899, le principal commentaire des écrits philosophiques du jeune Marx), et Antonio Gramsci, penseur marxiste sans doute le plus lu après 1945. Del Noce explore l'influence, non reconnue mais bien réelle selon lui, du premier sur le second. Gramsci a pensé le marxisme comme un immanentisme radical et le communisme comme 1'" analogue ", dans un monde complètement sécularisé, du christianisme médiéval. Mais chez Gramsci, en définitive, " modernité " et " immanentisme " prévalent sur " communisme " et " révolution ". Au terme d'un procès vers le nihilisme, la révolution se renverse en dissolution et s'appelle "contestation ". Parodie de l'intellectuel organique gramscien. le démystificateur contemporain n'est en fait qu'un gardien du nihilisme chargé d'assister le " suicide de la révolution " et le maintien du statu quo sous le masque de la transgression par injonction. Et le gramscisme, qui a renoncé à la mentalité messianique, est condamné à finir en " permission révolutionnaire " de conserver toutes les habitudes et tous les préjugés intellectuels hérités des Lumières. Bien qu'appartenant pleinement à la " génération du Ventennio ", Augusto Del Noce (1910-1989) n'adhéra pas au fascisme. Marqué par les " philosophes de l'existence " et par Maritain, il prit part à la Résistance et entama à la fin de la guerre un long dialogue avec les intellectuels communistes. Ce penseur inclassable, longtemps tenu à l'écart, participa cependant à tous les grands débats italiens de l'après-guerre. Il est aujourd'hui reconnu comme l'un des plus grands philosophes italiens contemporains et un interprète essentiel de l'histoire du XXe siècle.
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