The Kingdom of Man

Remi Brague argues that with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western society has rejected traditional theophilosphical ideas in favor of human authority and autonomy, ultimately causing the erasure of divinely ordered humanity.

Introduction
Part One: Preparation
1. The Best Of The Living Things
2. Domination
3. Three Incomplete Prefigurations
4. Metaphorical Dominations
5. The New Lord Of Creation
6. Attempts And Temptations
Part Two: Deployment
7. The Formation Of The Modern Project
8. The Beginnings Of The Realization
9. The Master Is There
10. Moral Dominion
11. The Duty To Reign
12. The Iron Rod
13. The New Meaning Of Humanism
14. The Sole Lord
Part Three: Failure
15. Kingdom or Waste Land?
16. Man, Humiliated
17. The Subjugated Subject
18. Man Remade
19. Man Surpassed and ... Replaced
20. Checkmate?
21. Lights Out
Conclusion