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Las raìces intelectuales de la crisis del marxismo en la interpretaciòn de Augusto Del Noce
2022
In the last thirty years, that is since the end of the Cold War, it has occurred a singular phenomenon in the democratic societies: several traditional communist parties have left the old Marxist ideology, by maintaining many aspects of the liberal one (primacy of freedom on equality, free market...) giving up their classical revolutionary calling. My thesis is that the italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce has given one of the most remarkable interpretations both of the historical and theoretical collapse of Marxism and of this paradoxical embrace between the ex-communist parties and a kind of liberal individualism.
Alienation and nihilism in the “affluent society”: the topicality of Augusto Del Noce
2021
Del Noce’s thought unravels over several decades on the stimulation of the great historical events in the 20th century (Totalitarianism, the Second World War, the Cold War, the Second Vatican Council, the Historic Compromise in Italy, etc.). Del Noce tackles the major philosophers of his time in this long journey of meditation: from Maritain to Gilson, from Gentile to Gramsci, from Löwith to Lukács and from Voegelin to Croce, not forgetting the dialogue with the classics from Descartes to Rosmini, and Marx to Gioberti. In this paper, I will concentrate mainly on his reflections around the so-called “affluent society” where he has gathered together, prophetically, those nihilist and anti-Chr…