The Kingdom of Man: Genesis and Failure
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- ISBN 9780268104269
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2021
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication City/Country: US
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Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de lhomme, the last volume of Rémi 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, humanity increasingly devalued the theophilosophical mystery of being in favor of omniscience over ones own existence. Brague narrates the intellectual disappearance of the natural order, replaced by a universal chaos upon which only humanity can impose order; he cites the vivid histories of the nation-state, economic evolution into capitalism, and technology as the tools of this new dominion, taken up voluntarily by humans for their own ends rather than accepted from the deity for a divine purpos
Rémi Brague is emeritus professor of medieval and Arabic philosophy at the University of Paris I and Romano Guardini Chair Emeritus of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich). He is a member of the Institut de France and author of many books, including Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019).
Paul Seaton is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary's Seminary.
