Publisher's Synopsis
In this book from the Swiss philosopher Max Picard, first published in 1934, Picard argues that though the flight from God is not a phenomenon unique to this age, man has nevertheless put himself and society in a dangerous situation because of the progressive secularization of Western culture. In the age of Faith, he contends, a man had to make a conscious decision to separate himself from the world of Faith. Today, the world, not just the individual, is in flight, and men must extricate themselves from modernity and make a deliberate decision to find and affirm Faith. Gabriel Marcel says of Picard that he is "among the few who appear capable of redirecting the thinking elite toward an awakening of reason, without which it is impossible not to despair of mankind".
