Intelligence in Danger of Death

Editorial Reviews

De Corte is one of the greatest contemporary Catholic philosophers. It was above all in studying Aristotle that he became convinced that [Aristotle and Aquinas] used identical intellectual processes, and that they were, and are, among the best philosophers in history. This was enough for De Corte to oppose modern ideologies with the perennial relevance of classical philosophy
—Danilo Castellano, author of L'aristotelismo cristiano di Marcel De Corte, 1975

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity; that is why I die in exile.” These are said to have been the last words of Pope St. Gregory VII. Those of Marcel de Corte could have been analogous: “I have seen through the grotesque intellectual frauds around me; I have made due distinctions; but I lived in times when the difficult judgments men must make regarding complex issues has been used to block the knowledge of my work; therefore I die unappreciated.” This translation will go a long way towards awakening thinking English-speaking Catholics to the recognition he so deserves.
—John C. Rao

De Corte’s analyses of the way in which a whole society can be made to believe a made-up story useful only to those who govern have been vindicated time and again since 1969; consider recent events such as a man-made virus and its made-up cure(s), made-up sexual categories, made-up universes in electronic media, transhumanism, and so on. De Corte could not have known of these, but the principles he outlines make sense of them, and his reliance on a vast body of philosophical, political, and literary markers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century show the near-irresistible momentum that has led us to this point. This book is an essential read for whoever wishes to understand the road that has led to the current epistemological crisis and its underpinnings; it is a red-pill time capsule. For the solution is precisely to see reality as it is, and to abandon the sophistries and fairy-tales that are imposed upon us.
—Peter A. Kwasniewski