For this work at hand, which is considered his most "political" since it studies the problems of ethics and religion, and drawing from these, he talks about war, Europe, the role of a Global Organization that would ensure peace, about our "aphrodisiac" culture, as well as the role of women in the modern world and the private car as a "necessary" possession of man, the philosopher wrote what had been maturing within him for twenty-five years.

"I consider my latest book a work of sociology," he stated, while on another occasion he said: "It is a book of philosophy." According to the Polish scholar of his work, Leszek Kołakowski, who published his study on Bergson in 1985, we have in this book "the philosophical examination of anthropological materials."

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]