The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotionalemptiness in Western culture. George Steiner internationally renowned thinkerand scholar p... » 

The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotionalemptiness in Western culture. George Steiner internationally renowned thinkerand scholar pursues this and examines the alternative mythologies ofMarxism Freudian psychology LviStraussian anthropology and fads ofirrationality. «