In his psychoanalytic take on the psychology of politics, Pyschopathology and Politics, Harold Lasswell observed: The special value of the psychopathological approach is that it represents a supermicroscopic method of utilizing individual.
Our discourse is haunted by the concepts of the dead. Often, ideas we like to think are original to us were developed by other people 50 years before. This need not entail plagiarism. It can simply mean that someone thought of an idea before we had a chance to do it. But their achievement is more impressive for being more prescient.
The late Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce comes bearing gifts for those who wish to delve deeply into understanding the crisis of the West and the moral and spiritual passivity that consumes us. Three works of Del Noce’s The Crisis of Modernity, The Age of Secularization, and, now, The Problem of Atheism have been lovingly translated by Carlo Lancellotti, a mathematics professor at City University of New York.