{"product_id":"9781935191698","title":"Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt would be difficult to find a more perceptive description of Western man and the world he now inhabits than that provided by Chantal Delsol in \u003ci\u003eIcarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World\u003c\/i\u003e. With style and lucidity, Delsol likens contemporary Western man to the mythical figure Icarus, fallen back to earth after trying to reach the sun, alive but badly shaken and confused. During the twentieth century, Delsol argues, man flew too closely to the sun of utopian ideology. Having been burned, he is now groping for a way to orient himself. But the ideas he once held so dear—inevitable progress, the possibility of limitless social and self-transformation—are no longer believable, and he has, for the most part, long since rejected the religious tradition that might now have provided an anchor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelsol's portrait is engrossing. She explains how we have come simultaneously to embrace the \"good\" but reject the \"true\"; how we have sacralized rights and democracy; and how we have lost our sense of the tragic and embraced the idea of \"zero risk.\" Already a well-known political thinker in her native France, this is Delsol's first book to appear in English. \u003ci\u003eIcarus Fallen\u003c\/i\u003e should establish her as one of the most insightful social and cultural writers working on either side of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is simply the best book about the problems of modern man since Christopher Lasch's \u003ci\u003eCulture of Narcissism\u003c\/i\u003e. It is so crammed with truth and insight that, as someone once said of Chesterton, every line deserves a review.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Conservative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extensive evaluation of the pitfalls of modern times and the strict limits on human virtues, \u003ci\u003eIcarus Fallen\u003c\/i\u003e, is strongly recommended reading for students of 20th Century Philosophy, Politics, and History.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWisconsin Bookwatch\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISI Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050324869360,"sku":"9781935191698","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935191698_p0.jpg?v=1763656028","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935191698","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}