The Kingdom of ManWas humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Rgne de lhomme, the last volume of Rmi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early modern present and the future. As scientific advances drained