The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
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The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century
Benito Mussolini, who came to power as the leader of the Italian Fascist party in 1922.
The Decline of the West,
œil n’y a donc pas un temps des philosophes.â€
a modern society in which the natural sciences and bureaucratic rationality had conspired to undermine confidence in religious values and traditional sources of meaning.
œThe fate of our times,†he declared, “is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the ‘disenchantment of the world.’â€
He feared that the higher ideals of the Enlightenment were “irretrievably lost†and that only the imperative of “economic compulsion†would prevail.
questions of ultimate significance demanded a species of personal decision exceeding the bounds of rational debate.
With the outbreak of the War in 1914 much of this late-bourgeois optimism in science and technology was shattered.