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Nostalgia for the Absolute

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  • Title: Nostalgia for the Absolute
  • Author : George Steiner
  • Release Date : January 01, 1997
  • Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 6148 KB

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Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute that is growing and leading us to a massive clash between truth and human survival.

Ultimately he suggests that we can only reduce the impact of this collision course if we continue, as disinterestedly as possible, to ask questions and seek answers in the face of our increasingly complex world.


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