The Kingdom of Man: Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project

by Rémi Brague

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268104263
• ISBN13: 9780268104269
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"