Louis Dupré (1925–2022) was T. L. Riggs Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at Yale University and the author several books on modern thought, including Marx’s Social Critique of Culture.
“Passage to Modernity . . . offers vast erudition and genuine
philosophical wisdom that is increasingly rare in contemporary
debates about modern culture. . . . Dupré’s book nurtures the hope
that Christian faith in a secular age may still be renewed by a
prophetic humanism that has not yet been discovered by the modern
world.”—Peter Casarella, Communio: International Catholic
Review
“Dupré has written a brilliant, unsettling, and provocative essay
about the genesis of modernity. He identifies not one, but two
distinct moments at which Western thinkers severed important links
with their premodern past, challenging theses advanced by Heidegger
and Blumenberg among others. Whether it turns out to be true or
false, his thesis has to be taken very seriously.”—Alasdair
MacIntyre
“A truly great contribution to the problem of the origins and
nature of modernity, written beautifully with clarity and economy
of expression.”—Thomas P. McTighe, Georgetown University
“Dupré’s Passage to Modernity assays the disintegration of a
unified vision of God, man, and cosmos in the transition from the
medieval to the modern world. It is a potent assertion of the
importance of this history in refocusing our contemporary blurred
and fragmented consciousness and restoring a sense of connectedness
not only to our most recent past but to the entire sweep of human
existence in time, cosmos and destiny.”—Charles Trinkaus,
University of Michigan
“This brilliant work challenges all the more familiar portraits of
modernity. No philosopher or theologian can afford to ignore this
extraordinary study of our common heritage. It is one of those rare
works that change one’s vision of our central questions.”—David
Tracy, University of Chicago
“Dupré has written a magisterial study of the project and
revolution that was modernity. Tracing through the histories of
philosophy and theology the movement towards an anthropomorphic
center of culture, this capacious work will be found intriguing and
provocative in its reading of this history and indispensable for
future inquiries into modernity. I recommend it highly.”—Michael J.
Buckley, S.J., Boston College
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