Nostalgia for the absolute
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, L vi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality.
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- Full title :Nostalgia for the absolute / by George Steiner.
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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, L vi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality.
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- Publication Date:2004, ©1974.
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- Publisher(s):Anansi
- Place of Publication:Toronto
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004, ©1974.
Notes
Originally published: CBC Enterprises, 1974.
Text of five radio broadcasts given in the fall of 1974 as the fourteenth series of Massey Lectures.
The Physical Object
- Description:61 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0887845940, 9780887845949
- oclc:ocm55705816
- LC Classification:BR125
- Dewey Decimal:209/.04
Table of Contents
The secular Messiahs -- Voyages into the interior -- The lost garden -- The little green men -- Does the truth have a future?
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