Presentation ‘From the Enlightenment to the postmodern era: continuity and rupture’.

Publisher: Aula Magna. ISBN: 978-8419544926.

The 18th century is usually called the century of the Enlightenment, the century of the Enlightenment, as it was intended to illuminate a world that was historically considered to be in darkness. The Enlightenment developed a series of ideas (freedom, reason, tolerance, natural law, natural order, etc.), which served as the basis for the construction of the contemporary world, at the expense of the secular Christian tradition. In the long run, this meant a profound break with it, a paradigm shift. It also posed serious challenges at the very heart of our culture, while leaving important issues unresolved. From the 1960s onwards, above all, we entered a time of revisionism that led to a profound crisis, in which we are still living, giving rise to what we call post-modern culture, a time in which the great ideological constructions have fallen, the moral foundations of society have collapsed and a relativistic and nihilistic era is opening up. The main objective of this thought-provoking book is to explain this long process of change and crisis, based on the writings of its protagonists and the times they lived through.