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, were able to foresee what nevertheless is being established, almost triumphantly and unquestioningly, as the post-human era in the Greco-Western world. They were unable to foresee that there are no terms and limits to human self-expansion disconnected from nature and God. That the opening to terrible possibilities can be a closure. That the harshest Totalitarianism is velvet...