Marcel De Corte

Arouca Press Presents

Marcel De Corte

Catholic Thomist · Philosopher of Reality · Critic of Modern Dissociety

Marcel De Corte remains one of the great Catholic Thomistic thinkers of the twentieth century, yet he is still little known in the English-speaking world.

Arouca Press is the first publisher to translate his works into English, opening to new readers a body of writing marked by philosophical realism, moral seriousness, and a penetrating analysis of modernity.

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The image of De Corte, obtained from his writings in Itinéraires, has remained with me, with his devastating analysis of the epistemological reversal of modernity; the irredeemable crisis of civilization; the corrupting character of politics founded on the “religion of democracy”; and the tragedy which was—and still is—the crisis of the post-conciliar Church.

Miguel Ayuso

Professor of Political Science, Comillas Pontifical University

Thomistic Realism

De Corte’s thought begins from the real: the created order, human nature, common sense, and the metaphysical structure of being.

Moral Order

His works on prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance recover virtue as the living formation of intellect, will, and society.

Crisis of Civilization

De Corte diagnosed the collapse of organic society, the tyranny of abstraction, and the deformation of intelligence.