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He also has a ruthless chapter on modern spiritual replacements that will give some laughs if you roll your eyes that direction on occasion. This question of epistemology is, I believe, a fundamental question and on which, if the answer is negative and I believe that it must be if we adopt any sort of secular anthropologyhas significant ramifications for Steiner’s ideas.
Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner
Want to Read saving…. Sep 10, Feisty Harriet rated it did not like it Shelves: While Steiner does a decent job in his exploration of the question of whether truth and human survival are coterminous and I agree with his assessment that they are not necessarily so, what Steiner fails to address is whether human beings are truth-capable, that is, whether humans actually possess the requisite faculties to ascertain and understand truth.
To ask other readers questions about Nostalgia for the Absoluteplease sign up. Steiner is a narrow-minded, xenophobic right-wing nut who somehow genuinely believes that anyone who does not share his ideas is less than.
Nostalgia for the Absolute
goerge The central thesis is controversial but rings true: Marxism has its legends [ Jun 14, Scott Woody rated it really liked it. The fourth lecture examines modern superstitions and irrationality: How familiar all this is to students of the history of Christianity.
Ultimately he suggests that we can only reduce the impact of this collision course if we continue, as disinterestedly as possible, to ask questions and seek answers in the face of our absiluto complex world.
Marxism has its emblems, its symbolic gestures, just like any transcendent religious faith [ Steiner is having a good rant about things that clearly piss him off. Apr steiner-nostxlgia, Rhys rated it liked it.
Five lectures on the decline of Christianity, ‘the death of God’, and its effects on Western civilization.
Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Steiner examines three modern mythologies which attempt to fill the gap, the hunger for absolute truth, left by the decline of religion: The consummation of the libido lies abeoluto death” p.
I came on this book through a tweet by Marc Andreesen, where he claimed that it handily explained a lot of modern-day Weltschmerz. Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Levi-Straussian anthropology.
Is it the right basis set? With the decline of formal religion Steiner discusses ways to fill the gap left by the lapse.
What the species strives for, finally, is not survival and perpetuation, but repose, perfect inertness. Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner. The conversation t Steiner begins by examining the impact of the “death of God” and the decline of Christianity as well as the emergence of various alternatives to and replacements of Christianity in the modern world.
Feb 09, Arash Kamangir stfiner-nostalgia it it was amazing.
It’s definitely clear that these movements are important to the world and that their adherents really do believe in the inevitability of their claims the communist March of Progress rings faintly. It was important for me in that it was only after reading it that I first framed my own deeply-rooted skepticism.
Mar 18, David Withun rated it really liked it Shelves: Magari ci sarebbe absolutoo moltissimo tempo. Trivia About Nostalgia for the Escrito de forma clara y concisa, accesible para cualquiera, pero no por ello pierde en profundidad.
Didn’t leave much to hope for, but Steiner also seems to shrug at the current possibilities.