The light comes from the West.

"Westerners have become spoiled children who, having obtained everything, no longer know what to do with it and wonder if it was worth the effort." Daryush Shayegan discerns aspirations, the search for other values, the need for a conversion to goals other than material ones... And this conversion, if it must take place, will necessarily come from the place of the fall, from the very place where the adventure of modernity began. It is therefore from the West that a turning point must emerge, which can only be spiritual. Nourished by the greatest thinkers of the East and the West, this masterful essay becomes a dazzling read.