Augusto Del Noce is widely considered one of Italy’s foremost philosophers and political thinkers in the second half of the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an original and profound cul- tural critic, and in particular as a great scholar of the process of secularization that took place in the West during the 1960s. A collection of eleven essays and lectures by Del Noce that originally appeared between 1964 and 1969, and which the author published as a book in 1971, The Age of Secularization quickly became recognized as one of the most original and pene- trating attempts to interpret the cultural and politi- cal turmoil of the period. In its pages Del Noce discusses, among other topics, the student protests of 1968, the counterculture of the 1960s, the sig- nificance of the sexual revolution, the nature of the technological society, and the relationship between Christianity and modern culture. The Age of Secularization documents the en- counter between a key period of contemporary his- tory and the full intellectual maturity of one of its most perceptive observers. It makes available to English-language readers a lasting reflection on the philosophical roots of contemporary culture, and it is just as illuminating and topical today as it was nearly fifty years ago. Augusto Del Noce (1910–1989) was professor at La Sapienza University of Rome and a distin- guished philosopher, political thinker, and public intellectual. Carlo Lancellotti is professor of mathematics at the City University of New York (College of Staten Island), and editor and translator of Augusto Del Noce’s The Crisis of Modernity. 3 3 M Q U P F A L L 2 0 1 7 P H I L O S O P H Y The Age of Secularization augusto del noce Edited and Translated by Carlo Lancellotti A thought-provoking collection of essays and lectures by one of the most perceptive Italian cultural critics of the twentieth century. S P E C I F I C AT I O N S McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas October 2017 978-0-7735-5091-9 $34.95A CDN, $34.95A US, £29.99 paper 978-0-7735-5090-2 $110.00S CDN, $110.00S US, £95.00 cloth 6 x 9 352pp eBook available