THE END OF THE MODERN WORLD
By Romano Guardini
Foreword by Richard John Neuhaus
Introduction by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
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ISBN: 1-882926-23-4 (cloth)
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An extended inquiry into the nature of the modern age, as well as an historical, philosophical, and theological analysis of modernity's prospects in the next millennium. This expanded edition includes the original text of The End of the Modern World, as well as the entirety of its explicit sequel, Power and Responsibility. Guardini analyzes modern man's conception of himself in the world, and examines the nature and use of power. It is the principle of individual responsibility that weaves both works into a seamless, comprehensive, and compelling moral statement. Guardini tirelessly argues that human beings are responsible moral agents, possessed of free will and answerable to God and their fellow man.
What They're Saying...
"Guardini's analysis...still has resonance, because many of the problems he diagnoses about modernity have not been overcome. Fears of nuclear destruction and totalitarianism may have abated, but fears about the destruction of the planet's ecology by the forces which the modern age unleashed, and anxiety about the direction of mass society, have grown."
— Times Literary Supplement
"Guardini's book...stands as a fascinating portrait of the modern contradiction..."
— The Chesterton Review
"Much of Guardini's analysis, by now forty years old, is prophetic."
— New Oxford Review
"This new and expanded edition is more than timely; it requires careful reading and-yes, contemplation—by those who are willing and able to absorb its theme and content."
— John Lukacs, author, The Hitler of History
"[It is] an exceptionally important book for a new millenium."
— First Things
"...[T]his penetrating Guardini book will provide a whole new generation with a chance to know real wisdom—and the rest of us with a reminder of an inexhaustible treasure."
— Robert Royal, author, Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century
Chapters Include:
- The Sense of Being and the World Picture of the Middle Ages
- The Birth of the Modern World
- The Dissolution of the Modern World
- The Essence of Power
- Theological Concept of Power
- The Unfolding of Power
- The New Concept of the World and of Man
- Possibilites of Action
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