The replacement of organic communities with technocratic states.
First published in German in 1950 as Das Ende der Neuzeit , the book was a product of its time, written "in the aftermath of the Second World War". It is not a work of simple pessimism or doom-mongering. Instead, it is described as a "somber, even dire, treatise on the future of modernity" that attempts to "face what seem to be the facts about 'post-modern' man and his world". The core of Guardini's argument is that the modern world, having emerged from the values of the medieval era, ultimately rejected "the faith that gave rise to those values". This rejection, he posits, has led to a state of being "unhinged and untethered, where ideology and materialism have replaced the meaning and certainty found in Christ". the end of the modern world romano guardini pdf
