The modern man is said to be wandering, disenchanted, a stranger to himself, and the last few years could easily convince us that he is on the threshold of psychic collapse.
What is he missing?
Where does this feeling of being thrown into the void come from?
Such is the subject of the latest book by Sonia Mabrouk, who has embarked on the reconquest of what she calls the sacred, which she seeks to explore, worried about the effects of a metaphysical deficiency on our societies which believe themselves spiritually self-sufficient.
So, let's come back to it: modernity, in a way, wanted to be foreign to the sacred.
Inhabited by an anthropology of the transparency and integral plasticity of the human being, it believes in abolishing or at least going beyond the mystery proper to man through the promises of science and technology.
A promise that she obviously cannot keep.
Because man is born, but dies, and does not succeed in resolving it.
He can't come to terms with being just a rather insignificant biological fact on the scale...
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