The Passing of the Modern Age

Out of print for decades, John Lukacs's The Passing of the Modern Age returns in a new Angelico Press edition.

Lukacs, one of the most original historians of the twentieth century, argues that we are living at the end of an era that began four or five centuries ago. At the very moment when human achievement seems to peak, confidence in the civilization that produced it is fading. Ranging across politics, science, the arts, manners, and belief, he offers a lucid and realistic survey of a whole civilization in transition.