Abstract

MOLINA, Tomás Felipe. Democratic Modernity as a Religion: An Intertextual Interpretation of Gómez Dávila's Critique in Textos. Diánoia [online]. 2020, vol.65, n.84, pp.59-80.  Epub Dec 09, 2020. ISSN 0185-2450.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704913e.2020.84.1612.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila characterizes democratic Modernity as a gnostic age. This article pretends to reconstruct his characterization by way of an intertextual reading of Textos. Gómez Dávila’s thesis is derived from a philosophy of history and a philosophical anthropology; both allow him to interpret Modernity from a religious perspective. His conclusion is that democratic Modernity bestows human beings unlimited sovereignty, which for him means gnostic divinization. Thus, I intend to explain how intertextuality works in the assessment of democratic Modernity and put forward a few critical considerations.

Keywords : divinization; theology; politics; Gnosticism; sovereignty.

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