Nostalgia for the Absolute

"The moral and emotional emptiness left in Western culture by the decline of formal religious systems is the topic of Professor Steiner's discussion. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate "mythologies" offered by Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, Levi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult, Orientalism)--all of which try unsuccessfully to fill the gap left by decay of formal religion." - Publisher