Barbarism

By Michel Henry

This dialogic book delivers a radical diagnosis of our technological civilization. You will learn to recognize how science strips reality of its living substance, why culture and knowledge have become enemies, and what it means when technique and money replace felt experience as the measure of all things.

Screens everywhere, algorithms shaping desire, artificial intelligence claiming to think. Michel Henry saw it coming in 1987. Writing at the height of techno-optimism, he argued that Galilean science, by reducing reality to what can be measured, systematically destroys the living core of culture. His diagnosis has only grown sharper. You will learn to see what progress leaves behind.