La genealogia della secolarizzazione come una critica dell’ideologia sui generis. Una proposta di lettura del pensiero di Karl Löwith.

In this article, the author analyzes Karl Löwith’s philosophical critique of secularization. It focuses specifically on three moments: the reconstruction of the “revolutionary fracture” of the mid-nineteenth century, as explored in From Hegel to Nietzsche; the analysis of the birth of the philosophy of history from the secularization of Christian eschatology, outlined in Meaning in History; and f inally, the interpretation of the transformation of progress into a fatality, de veloped in his post-World War II writings, within the framework of his mature reflections on nature. The aim of this analysis is to reconstruct the fundamental oscillations of Löwith’s reflection. On the one hand, it is dominated by the aspi ration to propose a peculiar critique of ideology, which aims to deactivate mod ern historical consciousness and its projection toward the future, highlighting how the latter arose from a secularized Christian eschatological projection. On the other hand, however, the very genealogy of secularization seems to attest to the specific problems of a post-Christian era, characterized not only by histori cal thought but also by the transformation of the historical being of individuals.