released 1/21/2022

Only in the past 10 years has the thought of Augusto Del Noce (1910–1989) been available and appreciated by English-language readers. This month, his major work The Problem of Atheism is being published in a translation by Carlo Lancellotti, who had already gifted English readers with two earlier anthologies of essays and lectures by Del Noce: The Crisis of Modernity and The Age of Secularization. In this Friday Feature — presented courtesy of Biola University — Lancellotti talks with Aaron Kheriaty about the central ideas in Del Noce’s writings.

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Modern societies typically hold to certain allegedly self-evident truths about the nature of knowledge. Lurking imperceptibly behind these “truths” is a story of human progress away from superstition into the light of Reason. In his book Returning to Reality, philosopher Paul Tyson imagines a grand “Song of Modernity.” In it, he captures the triumphant (and anti-Christian) sense of enlightenment characteristic of modern thought. On this Friday Feature, Ken Myers summarizes some of the key themes in Tyson’s book, and reads his instructive “Song of Modernity.”

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