Light and Darkness

Mikhail Naimy

In this collection of thirty-three essays, lectures, and broadcasts, Mikhail Naimy aims to elucidate the falsity that taints our values in this era, which we have grown accustomed to calling the "Age of Enlightenment." This falsity transforms light into darkness. He achieves this through incisive analytical thought, rich cultural experience, a visionary comprehensive imagination, and a style that combines ultimate simplicity and realism with ultimate transcendence, moving from the temporal sensory to the realm of absolutes. If humanity, unlike all other living beings, is a battleground on the path to the ideal, pulled upwards by aspirations and downwards by inclinations, then in this Age of Enlightenment, as Naimy portrays it, there is much falsity that turns the darkness within us into light and light into darkness.