Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le R gne de l'homme , the last volume of R mi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early modern present and the future.
As scientific advances drained the cosmos of literal mystery, hu.
University Of Notre Dame Press The kingdom of man: genesis and failure of the modern project, paperback/rémi brague
