What inherent weaknesses and contradictions plague post-Enlightenment modernity? Neither the philosophy of the subject, nor the psychology of the unconscious, nor Marxist or liberal economics, nor the sociology of institutions, along with a theology that has lost the gift of prophecy, have been able to foresee what is nevertheless being established, almost triumphantly and relentlessly, as a post-human era in the Greco-Western world.

They have not been able to predict that there are no terms or limits to human self-expansion, disconnected from nature and God. That the openness to terrifying possibilities can also be a closure. That the harshest totalitarianism can be velvety...