so the authot looks to The Age of Enlightenment, and all the names that are part of it, as a bad event?
i would think that names lile neitshche, freud, campbell, jung would be candidates, rather than newton, pascal.
“so the authot looks to The Age of Enlightenment, and all the names that are part of it, as a bad event?”
That’s a simplistic take. Something or someone can be both good and bad in different measures. Yes, the Enlightenment brought great advances in science and technology, but it also inflicted a fatal wound on Western civilization by striking at the moral foundation of our societies.
A society can’t survive without a cohesive worldview that gives people purpose and meaning. The last few hundred years of history have been mostly the struggle between one segment of our societies trying to preserve and reinvigorate the old worldview, and other segments trying to foist a new one on us with disastrous results each time.