Nostalgia for the Absolute (The CBC Massey Lectures)
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Nostalgia for the Absolute (The CBC Massey Lectures)
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The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture. George Steiner, internationally renowned thinker and scholar, pursues this and examines the alternative "mythologies" of Marxism, Freudian psychology, Lévi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality.
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