Nostalgia for the Absolute

By George Steiner

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887940765
• ISBN13: 9780887940767
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: CBC Enterprises
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

I've read this three times. It is a brilliant essay showing how the most popular secular worldviews and totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century are best seen as quests for meaning, as religions like Christianity and Judaism grow increasingly unbelievable.