Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World (Chantal Delsol)

An insightful and prophetic, yet very flawed, book.
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"It is easy today to see that Western civilization has hit the skids. Twenty years ago, when the French political philosopher Chantal Delsol published Icarus Fallen (the English translation of a work first published in French in 1996), it was not so clear. The signs were all there, and the truth that the Enlightenment scheme had failed was not obscure. But the obvious conclusion, that we should terminate the experiment, was far from mainstream. What is good about this book is that its analysis is incisive and insightful, and thus its prophecies have proven largely accurate. What is bad about this book is that it too quickly rejects the wisdom of the past, and instead calls for that most fatal of projects, a new anthropology of man." . . .

[@leonardobastos1945]

One of the BEST books I've ever read! It compares to Ortega y Gasset and Christopher Lasch...

[@scottgun]

"So naturally Delsol turns to....AIDS." Good thing I wasn't in mid-sip with my coffee. It's amazing how she can get so much right then crash and burn. It reminds me of Martha Boyles' _Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in Popular American Music_ She talks about how ugly modern music is (no argument here) but then acts like Jazz is Aristotle's music of the spheres.

[@Run.Ran.Run1]

Thanks for this. Yet another example of why no one should listen to the French, and a woman at that!

[@jasonrose6288]

Why?