Critique of Enlightenment and Western Civilization's Decline

The podcast discusses the book 'Icarus Fallen, The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World' by Chantal Del Sol. Del Sol's analysis highlights the decline of Western civilization and the failure of the Enlightenment project. She criticizes the Enlightenment scheme for promoting a false belief in the perfectibility of mankind through total freedom, which ultimately led to the loss of meaning and identity. Del Sol argues that the rejection of religious belief and the pursuit of temporal utopias have left Western man adrift, resulting in a narrow vision of what man can and should be.