Francis X. Maier calls the late Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce the most important thinker that Americans don’t know. Here are excerpts from Maier’s review of a new volume of Del Noce’s writings, which have been translated by Carlo Lancellotti, who comments on this blog from time to time. The title of the new book is The Age of Secularization. 

From the review: Del Noce’s use of the word “totalitarian” needs some explanation. He did not mean a society run by bullyboys in jackboots.