After the death of God and the dismemberment of utopias, our age seems thrown into uncertainty. Many of the intellectual efforts are now destined to find a common framework on which to base acts and speeches. And history shows us that we are not alone in this task.

Tzvetan Todorov analyzes the humanist side of the Enlightenment, a key moment in the history of thought in the West where it was tried to give shape to questions such as the autonomy of man, the ultimate end of our species, happiness or the possibility of reaching Establish universal postulates. An intellectual project, an effort of critical thinking that provided valuable tools and an orientation that laid the basis for thinking about the problems of our time with the inexcusable premise of not accepting simplistic reasoning or dogmatic truths.