Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9780773596733
Series Statement:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion v.64
Content:
A selection of essays on modernity and secularization by one of the most distinguished Italian thinkers of the mid-twentieth century.
Content:
Cover -- McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Part One Modernity, Revolution, Secularization -- 1 The Idea of Modernity -- 2 Violence and Modern Gnosticism -- 3 Revolution, Risorgimento, Tradition -- 4 The Latent Metaphysics within Contemporary Politics -- 5 Secularization and the Crisis of Modernity -- Part Two The Advent of the Technocratic Society -- 6 Toward a New Totalitarianism -- 7 The Shadow of Tomorrow -- 8 The Death of the Sacred -- 9 The Roots of the Crisis -- 10 The Ascendance of Eroticism -- Part Three The Predicament of the West -- 11 Authority versus Power -- 12 A "New" Perspective on Right and Left -- Appendices -- Appendix A The Story of a Solitary Thinker -- Appendix B Notes on Secularization and Religious Thought -- Appendix C Eric Voegelin and the Critique of the Idea of Modernity -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773544420
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780773544420
Language:
English
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