Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Translator's Introduction ix
4. Modernity, Revolution, Secularization
5. The Idea of Modernity 3
6. Violence and Modern Gnosticism 19
7. Revolution, Risorgimento, Tradition 49
8. The Latent Metaphysics within Contemporary Politics 59
9. Secularization and the Crisis of Modernity 73
10. The Advent of the Technocratic Society
11. Toward a New Totalitarianism 87
12. The Shadow of Tomorrow 92
13. The Death of the Sacred 118
14. The Roots of the Crisis 137
15. The Ascendance of Eroticism 157
16. The Predicament of the West
17. Authority versus Power 189
18. A “New” Perspective on Right and Left 247
19. The Story of a Solitary Thinker 263
20. Notes on Secularization and Religious Thought 272
21. Eric Voegelin and the Critique of the Idea of Modernity 287
22. Index 307