Jean-Francois Mattei, Le Regard Vide

This is an essay on the spiritual weakening of Europe as an idea. Only I didn't figure out this was about Europe as an idea, as opposed to the West. The author might have said so earlier, since I couldn't figure out his argument didn't apply to, say, the Americas. Once that was understood, it was an interesting pursuit of what constitutes the intellectual armature of Europe, and how various concepts since Antiquity have a role in civilization for a long time, but now the renewal ought to occur.