The phrase "غلاة الانوار" translates to "Extremists of the lights" or "Fanatics of the lights."

Michel Onfray offers a different and unique reading of the history of French Enlightenment philosophy. The author believes that European Enlightenment is nothing but a myth and that the established readings today have distorted the facts, and for this reason, he presents in the book his own account of what is called Enlightenment philosophy.