Nostalgia For The Absolute

Synopsis

Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 ߞ 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