Reenchantment of the World as an Alternative

A Christian Perspective in the Postmodern Era

Abstract

From a neo-Thomist analysis, drawing on various personalist and communitarian authors, such as Emmanuel Mounier, Jacques Maritain, Charles Taylor, Tomás Melendo, Nikolai Berdaiev and others, contemporary society is examined. From its historical evolution in thought and its social, economic and legal consequences, following the shared outline of these authors in the analysis of modernity and its pillars, i.e. subjectivism, materialism and utilitarianism typical of liberalism, to conceptualise its effects on society and the human person, together with its great consequence: a superfluous, banal and empty world that deforms the individual psyche and social morality at all levels, putting the very conception of human dignity at stake in political, economic and legal sciences. As an alternative to the progressive development of modernity up to post-modern times, it proposes the re-evaluation of the human being from a broad and mystical conception of the person that has been elaborated from the tradition and philosophy of Christian inspiration: a re-enchantment of the world.