Open AccessL'affaire Guardini. Secolarizzazione e legittimità dell'età moderna in Romano Guardini
Author(s) -
Mirko Alagna
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
rivista italiana di filosofia politica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2785-4256
pISSN - 2785-3330
DOI - 10.36253/rifp-1468
Subject(s) - modernity , revelation , secularization , philosophy , meaning (existential) , reading (process) , legitimacy , virtue , christianity , humanities , theology , epistemology , politics , linguistics , political science , law
This contribution proposes a reading of Guardini’s Das Ende der Neuzeit aimed at revealing the theory of modernity that it presupposes. Guardini embodies a third way between secularization and legitimacy. On the one hand, he recognizes a single sphere of the modern that can be explained with the paradigm of secularization. On the other hand, he empties this paradigm of meaning regarding other aspects of modernity, and this by virtue of an original reading of Christianity as a relationship between Revelation and the world - and not as an immutable and defined conceptual block.