On these pages, modernity is not synonymous with the values of the Enlightenment and bourgeois parliamentary democracy. Rather, the book is fundamentally based on the need to describe a genealogy of ethics.

A synthesis of practical discourse, institutional conventions, and imaginative scientific investments with a "theocratic" foundation, which defined the concept of humanity. Consequently, the formation of the framework and the analysis of how "normality" emerged, predominantly guided by ethical traits, are presented.

This led to the establishment of a specific "ethical" hegemonic core, which defined all dimensions of individual subjectivity. Therefore, the way sciences such as psychiatry, criminology, anatomy, statistics, sexology, psychoanalysis, and anthropology transformed into a framework through which science became the dominant interpreter of human existence is examined.

However, contrary to what modernity boldly proclaimed, this framework did not herald the overwhelming challenge of every authority but rather the indirect introduction of centuries-old ethics.

The multiple antinomies of this condition, pieces of the puzzle of a political philosophy based on which the right to life was constantly shifting from the realm of Law to the area of the Norm, leave us with a central reflection: what if history began not with Oedipus but with the Sphinx?