This paper begins by putting forth the argument about the main concepts of neoliberalism and of the multifacetted crisis of civilization issuing from the unilateral illuministic perspective. Asserting the need to recover the critical viewpoint, it includes the analysis of neoliberal economic policies and their political, social and cultural outcome from the standpoint of the modemity crisis. It goes on to ponder the main features of modem cosmology, highlighting the fulcrum role of rationalism in both its ontological and gnoseological approaches. Seeking support on the contributions of contemporary Science (particularly Quantum Physics) and of Psychoanalysis, it point out the route taken by the critique of those concepts, targetted towards the relativity of determinism and making room for the consideration of creation and of the emergence of the radically new in History.
Neo-liberalism; crisis of civilization; modemity crisis